"Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This vastly complicates the problems of economic organisation. Plainly if it were not for opportunism all behaviour could be rule governed"

-- Oliver E. Williamson

#Self Quotes #Effort Quotes #Behaviour Quotes

“A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.”
“According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world--and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.”
“You look out into the audience and you see so much joy on people's faces. You make eye contact with people who are almost crying because they can't believe they're seeing the Rumours five back again, they can't believe their eyes. It's almost like a family reunion on stage, there's no angst, there's no animosity, there's just tremendous amount of friendship.”
“I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument.”

Source : Marion Dane Bauer (1995). “A Writer's Story: From Life to Fiction”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous.”
“Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.”
“I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.”
“In any country when you throw something in somebody's face, it's disrespectful.”

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