Cardus Transcription Quotes & Sayings

human beings fail the way all complex systems fail: randomly and gradually. — Atul Gawande

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink. — Irving Stone

You got to be in mighty bad shape in the head to eat greens and Jell-o. — Dori Sanders

Although I was so big, and so rough in many ways, loved hunting, fighting, horseback riding, I loved the piano above everything else...The mountain man's obsession is to get a glimpse of the sea. — Anais Nin

Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving? — David Foster Wallace

For a franchise system to work well, you really need people with an entrepreneurial mind-set because, while you have a large, overarching system that everybody has to work with, a lot of local issues have to be handled. — Fred DeLuca

A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls. When we nap, we are resting our eyes while our imaginations soar. Getting ready for the next round. Sorting, sifting, separating the profound from the profane, the possible from the improbable. Rehearsing our acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, our surprise on receiving the MacArthur genius award. This requires a prone position. If we're lucky, we might drift off, but we won't drift far. Just far enough to ransom our creativity from chaos. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

Necessitous men are not free men. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

What I'm interested in watching is to make sure that they give the right advice now to the contestants who are going forward because, you know, it's one thing just to criticize but you've got to also give, you know, good advice which is going to help them. Overall, I think they're a good panel. — Simon Cowell

God has never created a poor man. It does not happen - it cannot happen because God creates you out of his richness. How can God create a poor man? You are his overflowing; you are part of existence. How can you be poor? You are rich, infinitely rich - as rich as nature itself. — Osho

I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics. — Pablo Picasso

Gambling: A sure way to get nothing from something. — Wilson Mizner

They told me it was impossible so I tried and failed. Then I tried again and again until I made it possible. — Debasish Mridha

I like to approach every day like it's the only day I will ever have. — Gene Simmons

Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make. — Nick Bostrom