"Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding."

-- Paul Auster

#Effort Quotes #Understanding Quotes #World Quotes

“It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations!”
“Today the world lost a visionary leader, the technology industry lost an iconic legend and I lost a friend and fellow founder. The legacy of Steve Jobs will be remembered for generations to come. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and to the Apple team.”
“There are â€œbus benchâ€ workouts and â€œpark benchâ€ workouts. A bus bench and a park bench look exactly the same, but your expectations sitting in them are radically different.”
“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.”

Source : Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media
“The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.”
“Father made the most popular cars in the world; I want to make the best.”
“We act like a zero-sum society, when in reality there is a lot of non zero-sum fat to be skimmed off to everyone's mutual advantage.”

Source : Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.310, Harvard University Press
“Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.”

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