Jinitiator Quotes & Sayings

We generally look around for what is not there fretting over it and thus letting go of what is there. — Amit Abraham

I think I said that every generation had its weaklings--that that was one of the penalties of greatness--but that their failings were seldom remembered by posterity. — Agatha Christie

Should I pity so and so?" I asked. I gave his name but he delights so in giving it himself that I feel there is no need to give it for him.
"No. He's vicious. He's a corrupter and he's truly vicious."
"But he's supposed to be a good writer."
"He's not," she said. "He's just a showman and he corrupts for the pleasure of corruption and he leads people into other vicious practices as well. — Ernest Hemingway,

Living a life that in fact lives them, as well as death dies them every moment since the triumphal birth in order to die. — Sorin Cerin

Fiction is an ancient virtual reality technology that specializes in simulating human problems. — Jonathan Gottschall

The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. — Milan Kundera

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger. — Mao Zedong

My key to living an inspired life involves Embracing my history, Understanding the function of expectations and gently learning to have none; Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices. In all circumstances I acknowledge this, IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE. My choice resides in my perspective. While I certainly do not control climate and markets and roadways and others, I do control myself and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board. — Arthur Rock

Unfortunately, we are very poor with PR skills but in serving people- we are superhero. — Ghulam Nabi Azad

[My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of new problems to solve. I took his advice very seriously and have been glad ever since that he did. — Luis Walter Alvarez

I am 'too fiery' ... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. — Margaret Fuller

There was nothing like necessity to supply a lack of nerve. — Helen Nielsen

People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals. — Dave Matthews

The whole world is now one vast uncontrolled experiment - the way it always was, Crake would have said - and the doctrine of unintended consequences is in full spate. — Margaret Atwood