"Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if thatâ€™s what you are seeking."

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Source : "This column will change your life: do you own gadgets - or do they own you?" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2013.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Running Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Missing Quotes

“I'm not at all competitive. I'd rather play Solitaire than ping-pong.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.”
“Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.”
“Writers are the engineers of human souls.”
“Spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening roar. It's a time for madness; a time for our fangs to come down and our eyes to glaze over so that the beast in us can sing with unmitigated joy. Oh yes, ecstasy, I welcome thee!”
“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”
“Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.”
“"Naming Tokyo" kicked off at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in June, and it's going to travel to various art institutions for years to come. Every time it is shown, I'm developing the research and involving more and more people in it. The final conclusion of the work would eventually be to put up street signs in Tokyo with my names on them.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com

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