Futures Indices Quotes & Sayings

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program. — Ronald Reagan

Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Be a scientist, save the world. — Richard Smalley

We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it. — Plato

Applying this idea in our daily life means breaking tasks into bite-size chunks and setting goals accordingly. A writer, for example, is better off trying to pen three great paragraphs at a time - the equivalent of moving through Mandy-Rae's kick cycles - rather than attempting one great chapter. Think challenging, yet manageable - just enough stimulation to shortcut attention into the now, not enough stress to pull you back out again. — Steven Kotler

One of the rules that emerges from a consideration of the factors that promote self-sacrifice is that we are less ready to die for what we have or are than for what we wish to have and to be. It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for," they do not feel like fighting. People who live full, worthwhile lives are not usually ready to die for their own interests nor for their country nor for a holy cause. — Eric Hoffer

Like climbing a cliff, thinking is a perilous activity for those unused to it. — Orson Scott Card

I walk with a dual longing
for life and for death. — Melissa Lee-Houghton

The right to participate in the choice of representatives for Congress includes, as we have said, the right to cast a ballot and to have it counted at the general election whether for the successful candidate or not. — Harlan F. Stone

He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass. — Ray Dalio

These things happen. — Adrian Lamo

Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents. — Patti Smith

Every customer interaction is a marketing opportunity. If you go above and beyond on the customer service side, people are much more likely to recommend you. — Stewart Butterfield

My love came back to me Under the November tree Shelterless and dim. He put his hand upon my shoulder, He did not think me strange or older, Nor I, him. — Francis Cornford