"I do think there will be winners and losers in the 21st century economy."

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Source : Source: www.slate.com

David Plotz

#Thinking Quotes #Loser Quotes #Winner Quotes

“Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you have read Thomas Mann in any case. Learn by copying, sentence by sentence some of the masters. Copy Coetzee's or Sebald's sentences and see what happens to your story. Consider creative non-fiction if you want to stay in South Africa. It might be the way to go. Never neglect back and hamstring exercises, otherwise you won't be able to write your novel. One needs one's buttocks to think.”
“Winning is overcoming obstacles to reach a goal, but the value in winning is only as great as the value of the goal reached.”

Source : W Timothy Gallwey (2014). “The Inner Game of Tennis: The classic guide to the mental side of peak performance”, p.91, Pan Macmillan
“The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.”

Source : Paul Lafargue (2016). “The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies”, p.4, Library of Alexandria
“All that we behold is full of blessings.”
“I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use those. I would rather crawl down the street in New York City than use those.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.”
“It's quite easy to make a load of people laugh, it's often a reflex action, but I think to make them cry is harder without manipulating them.”
“Chastity is sexual intercourse with affection.”

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