"It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time."

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Destiny Quotes #Risk Quotes #Cash Quotes

“At this time let us be exceedingly mindful that bearing one another's burdens and sharing one another's suffering is integral to being members of Christ's body.”
“The Holy Rosary is the storehouse of countless blessings.”
“Someone like John Prine can write a song that tears into your soul, turn it over, and write a song that makes you laugh and feel light as a feather. With someone like him, you're getting a real picture of a person, a real expression.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I overanalyze things way too much, to the point where it affects my life. Like, when I'm talking to a boy, I'll overanalyze a text message he sent. And I have to think to myself, 'Just chill out. Some guy sent me a text message. That's all. Don't read something into it that's not there. Just be glad he sent you a text message!'”
“I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.”
“A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.”

Source : "Infinity and the Mind". Book by Rudy Rucker, 1982.
“The more you dream the more you achieve.”

Source : "Interview Michael Phelps" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2004.
“If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.”

Source : John McPhee (2000). “Annals of the Former World”, p.127, Macmillan

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