"Back in those days it was just me swimming around in the dark, doing back flips and taking naps whenever I want."

-- Jeff Kinney

#Dark Quotes #Swimming Quotes #Naps Quotes

“Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?”
“We create a product nobody needs but people want. You spend more for what you really want. Some boring things you need: an ugly old car can wait, but if you have a new fashion item it cannot wait. We live on this whole idea.”
“Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must see these opportunities; they must be real for you. The catch is that they can't seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present. I don't mean some vague moment in the present -- next week or next month, perhaps. I mean today, this minute.”
“It's an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of the hardcore geek”
“We can extrapolate from the study that for the long term individual investor who maintains a consistent asset allocation and leans toward index funds, asset allocation determines about 100% of performance.”
“There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.”
“I think people react so strongly to hearing the human voice, you can't give them too much of it or else they want it all the time.”

Source : "Conversation: Chris Thile and the Goat Rodeo Sessions". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 25, 2012.
“I might not come home with hardware, but I'm winning.”

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