"In France that is the one rule, never make trouble."

-- Nancy Mitford

#France Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“I had a lot of preconceived notions going in the Wall Street. It wasn't an industry that I really respected much. My feeling was kind of like look, you're not making anything. You're taking money from one place, putting it in another and taking your cut and that's just not really kind of soul-satisfying at the end of the day, but what I learned is, on a larger scale is how much the Wall Street industry funnels and fuels so many others. There is a lot of good that these guys do, and to lump all traders into a category is as insane as lumping any group of people into one category.”
“The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.”
“Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There is little satisfaction in gaining an easy triumph over a weak opponent while ignoring better arguments against your views.”
“Were it not for Occam's Razor, which always demands simplicity, I'd be tempted to believe that human beings are more influenced by distant causes than immediate ones. This would especially be true of overeducated people, who are capable of thinking past the immediate, of becoming obsessed by the remote. It's the old stuff, the conflicts we've never come to terms with, that sneaks up on us, half forgotten, insisting upon action.”

Source : "Straight Man". Book by Richard Russo, 1997.
“When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true”
“Ask for what you want.Ask for help,ask for input,ask for advice and ideas- but be afraid to ask.”
“For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly fishers' and the journalists' experiences are probably pale flavors, but they carry nonetheless a hint of ambrosia.”

Source : Howell Raines (2006). “The One that Got Away: A Memoir”, p.153, Simon and Schuster
“The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.”

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