I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
- from Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman! book by Richard D. Feynman
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
- from Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman! book by Richard D. Feynman
Yoga is not about being superhuman; it is about realizing that being human is super.
- from Inner Engineering book by Sadhguru
The soreness of growth is so much less expensive than the devastating costs of regret.
- from The 5 AM Club book by Robin Sharma
In the world of business, sameness and stability are not an option. Companies rise and fall, locked in a Darwinian struggle for supremacy and survival, and industry after industry is disrupted by technological innovation.
- from Richer, Wiser, Happier book by William Green
There's a certain way I talk about the things I don't talk about. Maybe that's true for all of us. We have ways of closing off the conversation so that we don't ever get directly asked what we can't bear to answer.
- from The Anthropocene Reviewed book by John Green
I just don't believe in psychiatry. As far as I can tell, the only thing it's good for is making children blame their parents for everything that's ever gone wrong in their lives.
- from The Paper Palace book by Miranda Cowley Heller
Nothing in this world feels as good as hope.
- from Golden Girl book by Elin Hilderbrand
I believe that if you hire a man to do a job, you ought to get out of the way and let him do it. If you doubt his ability, you shouldn't have hired him in the first place.
- from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
The thing about money, sex, and success is that when you don't have them, you can justify your misery - shit, if I had money, sex, and success, I'd feel great! However misguided that may be, it psychologically permeates as hope. But once you are rich, famous, successful - and you're still insecure and unhappy - the terrifying thought begins to lurk: Maybe the problem is me.
- from Will book by Will Smith
The globalization game is not simply ending. It is already over. Most countries will never return to the degree of stability or growth they experienced in 2019. And now most have lost the chance to even try to shift onto a newer, more appropriate footing.
- from The End of the World is Just the Beginning book by Peter Zeihan