"There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case."

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Source : "The “Spirit of And”: Part 2" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2010.

Maynard Webb

#Zero Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.”
“I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record forever. You're mixing it and you can really just over-think everything. I'll go back and forth all the time.”

Source : "Exclusive: Kurt Vile on the Paranoia and Process Behind His New Record". Interview with Marah Eakin, music.avclub.com. July 21, 2015.
“Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.”

Source : "A Painfully Slow Recovery for America's Workers: Causes, Implications, and the Federal Reserve's Response" by Janet L. Yellen, www.federalreserve.gov. February 11, 2013.
“Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.”

Source : Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”
“The door burst open. Murphy came through it, her eyes living flames of azure blue, her hair a golden coronet around her. She held a blazing sword in her hand and she shone so bright and beautiful and terrifying in her anger that it was hard to see. The Sight, I realized, dimly. I was seeing her for who she was.”
“There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them”
“We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves. (p. 221)”
“If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.”

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