"Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is you think you should be doing more of."

-- Nicholson Baker

#Thinking Quotes #Should Quotes #Force Quotes

“If clients don’t trust you they will eventually stop doing business with you. It doesn’t matter how smart you are.”
“I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm animal or a pet, is to base animal welfare programs on the core emotion systems in the brain. My theory is that the environment animals live in should activate their positive emotions as much as possible, and not activate their negative emotions any more than necessary. If we get the animal's emotions rights, we will have fewer problem behaviors... All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.”
“Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.”
“I liked being challenged by music. It's good for me.”
“There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.”
“The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.”

Source : "On the nature of visions". Lecture in Vienna, 1912.
“He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.”
“Pain is the purifier. Love pain. Embrace pain.”

You may also like:

Anne Desclos
Journalist
Colson Whitehead
Novelist
David Foster Wallace
Novelist
Donald Barthelme
Author
Geoff Dyer
Writer
John Updike
Novelist
Jonathan Lethem
Novelist
Joseph Pulitzer
Publisher
Michiko Kakutani
Literary critic