"Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy."

-- Alexander von Humboldt

#Nature Quotes #Fate Quotes #Blow Quotes

“I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.”
“Most days I am in public. If I go to the store, with social media, I'm in public. It might as well be a press conference.”
“If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.”
“So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.”
“One of the tricks of this business is, keep your losses down.”
“Every artist feels alone and isolated, Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you what you are and what they are aside from the intellectual aspects.”
“I would like whispering with someone who is like me. But no one is.I think it is because my sizzle doesn't match anyone else's. I want something to happen so bad that it sizzles inside of me. It never stops, but it also never fits any of the choices presented.”

Source : Sarah Bird (2012). “The Gap Year”, p.70, Simon and Schuster
“Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.”

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