"It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance."

-- Ian Mcewan

#Powerful Quotes #Character Quotes #Fate Quotes

“To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselvesâ€”and each other.”
“I am very lucky to live in California, which is not only filled with very entrepreneurial people who don't wait around for success, but who make their own.”
“Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.”
“My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.”

Source : "The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World of Jonathan Winters". Interview With Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2012.
“Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just as traditional French cooking does not use seaweed or raw fish, so neoclassical models do not make assumptions derived from psychology, anthropology, or sociology. I disagree with any rules that limit the nature of the ingredients in economic models.”

Source : "An Economic Theorist's Book of Tales". Book by George Akerlof, October 26, 1984.
“Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives.”
“I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.”
“It must not be supposed that the subjective elements are any less 'real' than the objective elements; they are only less important... because they do not point to anything beyond ourselves...”

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