16hertz Quotes & Sayings

I think there's a greater detriment with our escalating progression toward the opposite extremity - the increasingly common ideology that assures people they're right about what they believe. And note that I used the word "detriment." I did not use the word "danger," because I don't think the notion of people living under the misguided premise that they're right is often dangerous. Most day-to-day issues are minor, the passage of time will dictate who was right and who was wrong, and the future will sort out the past. It is, however, socially detrimental. It hijacks conversation and aborts ideas. It engenders a delusion of simplicity that benefits people with inflexible minds. It makes the experience of living in a society slightly worse than it should be. — Chuck Klosterman

When you think about Peyton Manning, you think about numbers. When you think about Tom Brady, you think about championships — Ray Lewis

She laughed. 'That's what I love about you good-lookin' blokes. What, me? Have sex? — Jess Walter

I will not allow myself to entertain that though. Yeah, right. I'm not only entertaining that though, I'm taking it out to dinner and a movie. The goal is to focus on the now and to figure out how to reclaim your past. Or the parallel. Or my sanity.
Too much thinking never solved anything. — Laurie Viera Rigler

Smashing heads does not open minds. — Deborah Tannen

I may not always be right, but when I am, I admit it — Ken Murray

The surest sign that you're working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don't complain very much about doing what it takes. — Danielle LaPorte

In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time. — Sarah Vowell

Before my diagnosis [cancer] I was a competitor but not a fierce competitor. When I was diagnosed, that turned me into a fighter. — Lance Armstrong

Barking at people earns their respect about as effectively as staring into the sun improves your vision. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises. — Mason Cooley