Baruch Spinoza Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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..the art of becoming 'rich', in the common sense, is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves, but also of contriving that our neighbour shall have less. In accurate terms, it is 'the art of establishing the maximum inequality in your own favour'.
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'Where do you get those superior airs of yours?' 'I've managed to survive, you see, all those nights when I wondered: am I going to kill myself at dawn?'
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Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
