People want to start their own business or become financially independent. But you don’t end up a successful entrepreneur unless you find a way to love the risk, the uncertainty, the repeated failures, and working insane hours on something you have no idea whether will be successful or not. Mark Manson Read Quote
It’s things I wouldn’t normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting. Katee Sackhoff Read Quote
As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn’t necessarily be good. James Gleick Read Quote
Looking at Mount Kenya in the morning is a holistic experience. I go back at least once a year. Jochen Zeitz Read Quote
Enhancing fabric production will also lead to strengthening the power loom sector. Smriti Irani Read Quote
It’s hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And that’s what we had in GN’R. Steven Adler Read Quote
By late 1953, going to New York on vacation, I had lined up several Time Inc. interviews – and what they did was give me a lifelong appreciation of the importance of luck in getting a job. Carol Loomis Read Quote
On the whole, books are indeed less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their authors – mainly because they occupy a smaller amount of physical space than those who penned them. Often they sit on the shelves absorbing dust long after the writer himself has turned into a handful of dust. Joseph Brodsky Read Quote
It’s common knowledge that professional athletes earn extraordinary incomes. What is less known or understood is how the advent of these riches has seeped into the conscious and unconscious ways in which our society now parents children. Douglas Brunt Read Quote