Breaking Paradigms Quotes & Sayings

Love only knows your heart, not your fucking address — Danielle Rocco

Some people, he says, they hide themselves away from the eyes of the world. They hunker down and shiver. They find four walls high enough to put between them and everything else. Those people, to them the world is a frightful place. See, you and me, we're different. When we are called on to move, we move. It don't matter the cause or the distance. Revenge or ministration, reason or folly - it's all the same to us. — Alden Bell

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation. — Bill Pullman

Breaking paradigms is scary. Not breaking them is even scarier. Life is scary, but mostly we scare ourselves.*** — Art Hochberg

Marriage is nothing but a commitment to care and share. — Debasish Mridha

It was con; my mind was blank; I only wanted a halfpint of Grandad and six or seven tall cool beers ... — Charles Bukowski

There is a new wave of interest in exploring how to frame choices so that people make better decisions. Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, professors of economics and law, respectively, teamed up to write Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, which advocates using defaults to nudge us to make better choices.9 Even when we are choosing in our own interests, we often choose unwisely. When employees have the option of participating in a retirement-savings scheme, many do not, despite the financial advantages of doing so. If their employer instead automatically enrolls them, giving them the choice of opting out, participation jumps dramatically — Peter Singer

Milk in a mother's breast-that's cool. Milk in a mouth-that's cool too. But milk in my trumpet? Not so cool. I have to play that thing. — Wynton Marsalis

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. — Bertrand Russell

If you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise, I'm going to punch you in the stomach. — J.D. Robb

Are names more properly said to be the names of things, or of our ideas of things? The first is the expression in common use; the last is that of some metaphysicians, who conceived that in adopting it they were introducing a highly important distinction. — John Stuart Mill

During our ecstasies in the Himalayan caves, tigers will be spellbound and sit around us like tame pussies," my spirits froze; beads of perspiration formed on my brow. "What then?" I thought. "If the vicious nature of the tigers be not changed through the power of our spiritual trance, shall they treat us with the kindness of house cats?" In my mind's eye, I already saw myself the compulsory inmate of some tiger's stomach-entering there not at once with the whole body, but by installments of its several parts! — Anonymous