J. G. Ballard Quotes

Psychiatrists - the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War...

J. G. Ballard

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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.

Jack White The White Stripes
- People
- Up
- Growing
What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.

Vernon Jordan
- People
- World
- Care
Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.

Naval Ravikant
- Money
- Small
- Fire
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

Foster Friess
- Great
- Business
- America
We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.

Dan Pink
- Better
- Performance
- Sales
Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.

Vijay Sethupathi
- Me
- Nice
- Expectation