Compulsions Quotes

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

In the old world,

you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service

and 70% of your time to shouting about it.

In the new world, that inverts.

Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without.

We must create an economy that works for all,

not just the 1%.

The more that you read,

the more things you will know.

The more that you learn,

the more places you'll go.

If the tongue had not been

framed for articulation,

man would still be a beast in the forest.

You only learn who has been swimming naked

when the tide goes out.

Some dog I got too.

We call him Egypt.

Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want,

drink what you don't like,

and do what you'd rather not.

The final test of the worth of a society is

the quality of life of its citizens.

Every existing thing is born without reason,

prolongs itself out of weakness,

and dies by chance.

Sometimes, when I see

my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own,

I wish I were a child.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant,

I just love great music.

New Letter A of Letter A of Alphabet

History is the version of past events

that people have decided to agree upon.

O Day of days when we can read!

The reader and the book,

either without the other is naught.

I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than

the chances I didn’t take at all.

Acting is not about being someone different.

It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different,

then finding myself in there.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty.

The young are slaves to dreams;

the old servants of regrets.

Only the middle

aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do.

The hard part is doing it.