Defocused Reading Quotes & Sayings

Rules and systems were created by people. And that awareness gives us the courage to contemplate how we can change them. — Adam M. Grant

I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until I couldn't lie any more, 'cause I was either going to die or get better. — Trent Reznor

Dreaming and becoming are completely separate parts of the process. However, they are both as important as each other. Never discount how powerful your dreams are. If you cannot visualise what it is you wish to become, then the brain doesn't have the first clue how to get you there. — Chris Murray

It's a fundamental principle of management: what gets measured gets done. — Erik Brynjolfsson And Andrew McAfee

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl. — Francis Thompson

Something will happen soon, but I don't know what. Fear travels faster than a dust cloud ... and it's already in the wind. — Manel Loureiro

Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul. Violence and desperation are brutal things to search out. Why search out the horror? It's around us in real ways every day. I'm talking to you, the people who make that movie "The Human Centipede". No more "Human Centipede" movies please. No more movies about people's mouths being sewn onto other people's butts. The whole idea of making and watching a movie like that makes me want to take a ten-year nap. — Amy Poehler

Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin' — Rakim

Food didn't kill people, for God's sake, people killed people. With their harping, and criticizing, and careful living. — Nina Killham

The size of a man's understanding can be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson

The eyes are the gateway to the soul. — Herman Melville

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions. — James Russell Lowell

He killed a man," Mom said. "He was framed," Grandma Frida said. "You don't even know the story," Mom said. Grandma shrugged. "Framed. A man that pretty can't be a murderer." Mother stared at her. "Penelope, I'm seventy-two years old. You let me enjoy my fantasy." "Go Grandma." Arabella pumped her fist in the air. — Ilona Andrews

The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility. — Jessamyn West

I lock myself in the stall, take out the flask, unscrew it, and attach myself to it like a leech. I'm sitting on the bench, my heart is empty, my head is empty, my soul is empty, gulping down the hard stuff like water. Alive. I got out. The Zone let me out. The damned hag. My lifeblood. Traitorous bitch. Alive. The novices can't understand this. No one but a stalker can understand. And tears are pouring down my face - maybe from the booze, maybe from something else. I suck the flask dry; I'm wet, the flask is dry. As usual, I need just one more sip. Oh well, we'll fix that. We can fix anything now. Alive. I light a cigarette and stay seated. I can feel it - I'm coming around. — Arkady Strugatsky