"The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow."

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

#Thinking Quotes #Personality Quotes #Today Quotes

“Don't think you have to be the disrupter to win. A fast-following disruptee will do very well if you can bring your existing customers and ecosystem along with you.”

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“As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other hells that they no longer had the strength to cry out.”
“For a strong adversary (corps) the opposition of twenty-four squadrons and twelve guns ought not to have appeared very serious, but in war the psychological factors are often decisive. An adversary who feels inferior is in reality so.”

Source : Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (friherre) (1953). “The Memoirs of Marshal Mannerheim”
“I would never say snog. I would say osculate." She looks at me as if to say: why do you exist?”
“The ACA is an ugly patch on an ugly system - and I don't think it's worth mentioning in the context of price or quality transparency.”
“Sophistication and lifestyle is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures.”
“The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of these organisms are striking for the ceaseless, rhythmic pulsation that is revealed. In an organism as complex as a human being, the frequencies of oscillation and the interactions between those frequencies are multitudinous.”
“Love, it’s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown by your absence. Every crack trickles, every overhang drips. The screech of nighthawks has been replaced by the splash of rain. The rain falls from the height of streetlights. Each drop contains its own shattering blue bulb.”

Source : Stuart Dybek (2004). “The Coast of Chicago: Stories”, p.86, Picador

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