"A wise man turns chance into good fortune."

-- Thomas Fuller

#Wise Quotes #Business Quotes #Men Quotes

“There's this old line the wise folks in Washington have that "it's not the crime, but the cover-up." But only fools believe that. It's always about the crime. The whole point of the cover-up is that a full revelation of the underlying crime is not survivable.”

Source : "So Now We've Got". talkingpointsmemo.com. March 26, 2007.
“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”

Source : Max Planck (1933). “Where is science going?”
“If you're trying to be miserable, it's important you don't have any goals. No school goals, personal goals, family goals. Your only objective each day should be to inhale and exhale for sixteen hours before you go to bed again. Don't read anything informative, don't listen to anything useful, don't do anything productive. If you start achieving goals, you might start to feel a sense of excitement, then you might want to set another goal, and then your miserable mornings are through. To maintain your misery, the idea of crossing off your goals should never cross your mind.”
“Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.”

Source : John Thorn (1995). “Baseball: our game”, Penguin Books
“Wait for the fruit to fall into your hand.”
“The demise of our community and culture is the fault of sissified men who have been overly influenced by women.”
“In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.”
“The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.”

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