To me, America is about empowering true innovators (like founders), true risk-takers (like investors), true thinkers (like professors), and true elected leaders over the bureaucratic intermediaries who are hired to “manage” them all.
– from Woke, Inc. book by Vivek Ramaswamy
The power of ignorance is never …
The power of ignorance is never to be underestimated. It is very powerful and the world is ruled by it most of the time. You think your knowledge, your fire, your Enlightenment will do things, but the Enlightened are always an individual, the ignorant are in masses. There is a huge power to that.
– from Death; An Inside Story book by Sadhguru
Let everyone else call your idea …
Let everyone else call your idea crazy … just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t even think about stopping until you get there, and don’t give much thought to where “there” is. Whatever comes, just don’t stop.
– from Shoe Dog book by Phil Knight
Stop thinking about what your money …
Stop thinking about what your money can buy. Start thinking about what your money can earn. And then think about what the money it earns can earn. Once you begin to do this, you’ll start to see that when you spend money, not only is that money gone forever, the money it might have earned is gone as well. And so on.
– from The Simple Path to Wealth book by J. L. Collins
It’s not important where we go …
It’s not important where we go. I think it’s a wonderful feeling just being on a journey.
– from The Dark Forest book by Cixin Liu
We never know which lives we …
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it’s too late.
– from 11/22/63 book by Stephen King
How entirely undemanding of yourself it …
How entirely undemanding of yourself it was to believe that everything happened to you. And everything was about you. And that your feelings were the only ones that mattered. Worse yet, to afford yourself the role of the victim always – regardless of how grotesquely it required you to twist reality – so that you never had to look in the mirror and admit you were the perpetrator.
– from Atmosphere book by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Too much sugar leads to a …
Too much sugar leads to a heavy body, and too many distractions lead to a heavy mind.
– from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
Over the years, I’d gradually come …
Over the years, I’d gradually come to believe that family is like your shadow on a sunny day, always there, just over your shoulder, following you in spirit no matter where you are or what you’re doing. They’re always with you.
– from The Return book by Nicholas Sparks
Being a parent makes you feel …
Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone, there’s always someone who’s freezing.
– from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman