Clay Clark Business Booksbooks Quotes & Sayings

Thomas's mistake, like most of the behavior he leaked into the world, had been avoidable: to join another human being in a situation that virtually demanded unscripted, spontaneous conversation, and thus to risk total moral and emotional dissolution. Death by conversation, and all that. — Ben Marcus

Because we know ourselves. Because others obey us as though we were gods, and we know we're not. We see the fragility of our own power, and through it we see the fragility of every other link. What if the Spectrum suddenly refused my orders? Not hard to imagine, when you consider the scheming and lust for power it takes to become a Color. What if a general suddenly refuses his satrap's orders? What if a son refuses his father's orders? What if that first link in the Great Chain of being - Orholam Himself - is as empty as every other link before him? Seeing the weakness of each link, we think the Great Chain itself is fragile: surely at any moment it will burst if we don't do everything in our power to hold it together. — Brent Weeks

Growing up, I never thought about the thing called money. — Patrick Wolf

I think, if you spend a day or as many people do a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected to a finger, I feel that the rest of you atrophies, essentially. — Brian Eno

No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work. — Barack Obama

Power said to the world,
"You are mine."
The world kept it prisoner on her throne.
Love said to the world, "I am thine."
The world gave it the freedom of her house. — Rabindranath Tagore

If it's not duplicatable and scalable, it's not worth doing. — Clay Clark

Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings. — Apollonius Of Tyana

The robot successfully dismounted the car, proceeding at a slight crouch, and with exaggerated caution, toward the door; these movements it performed in the manner of a prodigiously shitfaced man intent on demonstrating that he had only had a couple of sherries with dinner. — Mark O'Connell

If you're interested, you will do what is convenient; if you're committed, you'll do whatever it takes. — John Assaraf

How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter. — Libba Bray

I wanted to protect you, but I'm starting to think that the best thing you can do for people is teach them how to protect themselves. Every girl needs to be at least a little dangerous. — Kai Cheng Thom

Go Fast! Go Hard! Finish! And Win the Day! — Eric Thomas

I am never any one of my attitudes, any one of my actions — Jean-Paul Sartre