"Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them."

-- Ludwig von Mises

#Luxury Quotes #Giving Quotes #Incentives Quotes

“I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.”
“Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that itâ€™s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brainâ€¦.Once; someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. â€˜PLEASURE???? I said.â€™ â€˜I donâ€™t understand the question.â€™ I didnâ€™t do it for the pleasure; I did it for the pain.”
“Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.”
“Success is... living a full and balanced life in partnership with others to create a joyful feeling of love, contribution, appreciation and abundance, despite how our endeavors may turn out.”
“I never realized that batting a little ball around could cause so much commotion. I now know how (Charles) Lindbergh must have felt when he returned from St. Louis.”
“Water is one of the basic needs of survival of mankind and water can destroy it, too. That is the power of NATURE. But there is an even more powerful dimension of NATURE which is a blessing to humans; courage, intelligence, compassion and the power to stand again.”
“I lost all respect for angstroms.”

Source : "Nobel Lectures, Physics 1981-1990", Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Gösta Ekspång, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, www.nobelprize.org. 1993.
“I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular genetics in recent years.”

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