"Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right."

-- Chin-Ning Chu

#Independent Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Risk Quotes

“Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.”
“The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.”
“The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.”

Source : John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.237, Simon and Schuster
“Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.”
“Actually, when John died, for the first time I thought - for the first time I realized how old I was, because I'd always thought of myself - when John was alive I saw myself through his eyes and he saw me as how old I was when we got married - and so when he died I kind of looked at myself in a different way. And this has kept on since then. The yellow corvette. When I gave up the yellow corvette, I literally gave up on it, I turned it in on a Volvo station wagon.”
“If I want to know how we learn and remember and represent the world, I will go to psychology and neuroscience. If I want to know where values come from, I will go to evolutionary biology and neuroscience and psychology, just as Aristotle and Hume would have, were they alive.”

Source : "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.
“Osho's books inspire me to meditate. They give me peace of mind.”
“I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.”

Source : "Chairman of LVMH, Bernard Arnault TalkAsia Interview". "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, edition.cnn.com. March 16, 2005.

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