The sincere hearts and the pious supplications are soldiers which can never be defeated
Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.
The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.
To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.
Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.
Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.
I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-" "It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.