Pushing forward in my music career is not my focus at the moment. Right now it’s time for me to try to get my spiritual life in order, to pay attention to the little things, to slow down. It’s time for me not to be someone who other people want; it’s time to actually find myself.
– from The Woman in Me book by Britney Spears
Category: Quotes
Deep down I suspect that many …
Deep down I suspect that many gardeners regard themselves as minor-league alchemists, transforming the dross of compost (and water and sunlight) into substances of rare value and beauty and power.
– from This Is Your Mind on Plants book by Michael Pollan
God, when I cross the truth …
God, when I cross the truth, give me the awareness to receive it, the consciousness to recognize it, the presence to personalize it, the patience to preserve it, and the courage to live it.
– from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
History is a merciless judge. It …
History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish missteps and exposes our most intimate secrets, wielding the power of hindsight like an arrogant detective who seems to know the end of the mystery from the outset.
– from Killers of the Flower Moon book by David Grann
While central banks have mostly been …
While central banks have mostly been dismissive of the importance of Bitcoin, this could be a luxury they may not afford for long. As hard as it might be for central bankers to believe it, Bitcoin is a direct competitor to their line of business, which has been closed off from market competition for a century.
– from The Bitcoin Standard book by Saifedean Ammous
I do not adjust myself to …
I do not adjust myself to please the world. I am myself wherever I am, and I let the world adjust.
– from Untamed book by Glennon Doyle
The earth may spin on its …
The earth may spin on its axis, but the world revolves around money. Populism, nationalism, isolationism, corruption, trade wars, military wars, health crises, inequality, economic hardship, and financial market bubbles – all of them are connected to money. Money doesn’t just drive a wedge between different classes, races, genders, and countries. It is the wedge.
– from Permanent Distortion book by Nomi Prins
The modern world doesn’t call for …
The modern world doesn’t call for finished products. It calls for works in progress, where perpetual improvement wins the game.
– from Think Like a Rocket Scientist book by Ozan Varol
The first people to break the …
The first people to break the laws of bureaucracy are always the bureaucrats themselves.
– from A Man Called Ove book by Fredrik Backman
Look at them, the bugs. Humans …
Look at them, the bugs. Humans have used everything in their power to extinguish them: every kind of poison, aerial sprays, introducing and cultivating their natural predators, searching for and destroying their eggs, using genetic modification to sterilize them, burning with fire, drowning with water. Every family has bug spray, every desk has a flyswatter under it … this long war has been going on for the entire history of human civilization. But the outcome is still in doubt. The bugs have not been eliminated. They still proudly live between the heavens and the earth, and their numbers have not diminished from the time before the appearance of the humans.
– from The Three-Body Problem book by Cixin Liu