I can tell you as a scientist, that there's no such thing as ‘normal.' ‘Normal' is a bedtime story - a fable - that humans tell themselves to feel better when faced with overwhelming evidence that most of what's happening around them is not ‘normal' at all.
- from A Discovery of Witches book by Deborah Harkness
Over the long run the wealth and buying power you have will be a function of how much you produce. That is because real wealth doesn't last long and neither do inheritances. That is why being continuously productive is so important.
- from Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order book by Ray Dalio
I know instantly whether I should take a role. If my skin tingles as I read the script, then it is absolutely something I must do. But if my stomach churns, I do not touch the project, because if I did, I'd end up on a psychiatrist's couch. Either my spirit can take the story or it cannot, and my senses have never misled me.
- from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
Cynics say everything has its price. I say poppycock! There are things money can't buy and hard work can't win. One of them is happiness.
- from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
Your body does not momentarily press the pause button during sleep. It's more like a reset button because sleep is a necessary phase of regeneration. Billions of molecular tasks go on during sleep at the cellular level to ensure that you can live another day. Sufficient sleep keeps you sharp, creative, attentive, and able to process information quickly.
- from Keep Sharp book by Sanjay Gupta
Uncertainty leads to joy, discovery, and the fulfillment of your full potential. Uncertainty means doing things no one has done before and discovering things that, for at least a brief moment, no other person has seen. Life offers more of itself when we treat uncertainty as a friend, not a foe.
- from Think Like a Rocket Scientist book by Ozan Varol
When I love something, I don't do it halfway.
- from Roommaid book by Sariah Wilson
Everything changes. It is the nature of the world. Nothing stays the same.
- from The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue book by V. E. Schwab
The dollar bill is universally venerated across all political and religious divides. Though it has no intrinsic value - you cannot eat or drink a dollar bill - trust in the dollar and in the wisdom of the Federal Reserve is so firm that it is shared even by Islamic fundamentalists, Mexican drug lords and North Korean tyrants.
- from 21 Lessons for the 21st Century book by Yuval Noah Harari
As a species, humans prefer power to truth. We spend far more time and effort on trying to control the world than on trying to understand it - and even when we try to understand it, we usually do so in the hope that understanding the world will make it easier to control it. Therefore, if you dream of a society in which truth reigns supreme and myths are ignored, you have little to expect from Homo sapiens. Better try your luck with chimps.
- from 21 Lessons for the 21st Century book by Yuval Noah Harari