"Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life."

-- Victor Hugo

#Wisdom Quotes #Decision Quotes #Style Quotes

“Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.”

Source : Sir Compton Mackenzie (1950). “Tight Little Island”
“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”
“I have to tell you, though, the sexism in late night talk is so profound.”

Source : "The PW Interview: Kathy Griffin". Interview with Rachel Deahl, www.publishersweekly.com. September 10, 2009.
“What every prime minister struggles with and every leader struggles with is how to balance the two objectives; firstly that of ensuring that all asylum seekers are treated generously and humanely in accordance with the convention and secondly doing everything you can to eliminate or at least discourage people smuggling. And it's a very, very difficult balance.”
“Most traders believe that 'getting into the zone' happens when you have 'a hot streak.' I believe you can create the zone. The zone is a psychological state. It is when you are focused, disciplined, and fully engaged in the process at hand . . . trading in the zone will certainly increase your capacity to perform and succeed.”

Source : Ari Kiev (2004). “Trading in the Zone: Maximizing Performance with Focus and Discipline”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons
“My brother is a tax guy, and the way I look at it, it's like he's spending his life saving money for rich people. So I think making strangers laugh, at least having a creative component to your profession, is more manageable for me. I can live with that a lot easier.”
“When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.”
“The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.”

Source : Idries Shah (1990). “Sufi Thought and Action”, p.4, Octagon Press Ltd

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