Double Exposure Brian Caswell Quotes & Sayings

To paraphrase Einstein, insanity is expecting employees to do one thing while rewarding them for doing something else. — Robert G. Thompson

Happy talk must die — Steve Krug

In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being. — Bryant H. McGill

She can't make me," Gansey said.
"She doesn't have to," Ronan sniffed. "Mama's boy."
"Dream me a solution."
"Don't have to. Nature already gave you a spine. You know what I say? Fuck Washington. — Maggie Stiefvater

I told myself that I was going to live the rest of my life as if it were Saturday. — Chip Gaines

That's not to say that I don't find anything offensive. — Sarah Silverman

Class envy is dangerous. — Jack Abramoff

It is doubtless true that the masses have always been led in one way or another, and it could be said that their part in history consists primarily in allowing themselves to be led, since they represent a predominantly passive element, a materia in the Aristotelian sense of the word; but in order to lead them today it is sufficient to possess oneself of purely material means, taking the word matter this time in its ordinary sense, and this clearly shows to what depths the present age has sunk; and at the same time these same masses are made to believe that they are not being led, but that they are acting spontaneously and governing themselves, and the fact that they believe this to be true gives an idea of the extent of their unintelligence. — Rene Guenon

What, exactly, would you give up? — Alison McGhee

If you're wrong in the way you're right, you're wrong even if you're right. — James MacDonald

I strongly urge you to consciously consider what success means to you. Instead of allowing others or society to determine when you win, you determine it. — Pat Heim

Along the way I stopped into a coffee shop. All around me normal, everyday city types were going about their normal, everyday affairs. Lovers were whispering to each other, businessmen were poring over spread sheets, college kids were planning their next ski trip and discussing the new Police album. We could have been in any city in Japan. Transplant this coffee shop scene to Yokohama or Fukuoka and nothing would seem out of place. In spite of which
or, rather, all the more because
here I was, sitting in this coffee shop, drinking my coffee, feeling a desperate loneliness. I alone was the outsider. I had no place here.
Of course, by the same token, I couldn't really say I belonged to Tokyo and its coffee shops. But I had never felt this loneliness there. I could drink my coffee, read my book, pass the time of day without any special thought, all because I was part of the regular scenery. Here I had no ties to anyone. Fact is, I'd come to reclaim myself. — Haruki Murakami

You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home. — Carey Mulligan

Putting one in mind, perpetually, of an untended icebox in which an uncured joint has spoiled. — Eleanor Catton

Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God ... — John Locke