"A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it."

-- John Ruskin

#Pay Quotes #You Choose Quotes

“The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.”

Source : C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.6, Oxford University Press
“We're going to step on the field knowing that every team we're going against is going to push their game to that whole new level that we probably hadn't seen. ... We've just got to be ready to step up with them”
“It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.”

Source : Arnold J. Toynbee (1949). “Civilization on Trial”
“As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.”
“Culture is everything you don't have to do.”

Source : Interview with Steven Johnson, howwegettonext.com. December 18, 2015.
“You are worth more than harming yourself”
“I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.”
“My bedtime was 8 P.M. But on Cosby nights, I got to stay up until 8:30. Real big deal. This is when they could afford to do a completely different title sequence in TV every year. I always looked forward to that. It was like a mini musical at the top of the show. My favorite was the Top Hat fancy version.”

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