"Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival."

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Source : "At Lunch with Aung San Suu Kyi". Interview with Cherno Jobatey, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2014.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#Survival Quotes #Ingredients Quotes

“Stress is the high-level performers PowerBar.”
“I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.”
“I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.”
“Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from the assumption that existence is only an ordeal, a test we have to pass, then youâ€™re equipped to deal with its sorrows and its surprises. If you persist in expecting it to give you something it canâ€™t give, that just proves that you havenâ€™t understood anything. Take things as they come; donâ€™t turn them into a drama. Youâ€™re not piloting the ship, youâ€™re following the course of your destiny.”
“Photographers are always voyeuristic, and they do sort of live vicariously. I think every artist does.”
“A thoughtful investment process contemplates both probability and payoffs and carefully considers where the consensus - as revealed by a price - may be wrong. Even though there are also some important features that make investing different than, say, a casino or the track, the basic idea is the same: you want the positive expected value on your side”
“Every day on the water is a good day!”
“If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again. The catastrophe that's overtaking us has deep roots, but our previous state of natural anarchy reaches much further into our shared history .”

Source : "Take My Advice : Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two". Book by James L. Harmon, 2007.

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