Knabb Road Quotes & Sayings

Attachment is the food for the mind to continue. Non-attached witnessing is the way to stop it without any effort to stop it. And when you start enjoying those blissful moments, your capacity to retain them for longer periods arises. — Rajneesh

Warren Buffett has said many times that people either get value investing in five minutes or they won't get it in five years. So, there is something in the human brain, that for some of us, makes all the difference in the world right away and the patience it requires is part of the wiring process. — Mohnish Pabrai

There was something in me, even leaving fifth grade, that hit me and said, "I have to get out of here. I don't know where, and I don't know what else I can do but I'm really not going to end up like any of these people." — Babatunde Adebimpe

The characteristics of the reasoning of crowds are the association of dissimilar things possessing a merely apparent connection between each other, and the immediate generalisation of particular cases. It is arguments of this kind that are always presented to crowds by those who know how to manage them. — Gustave Le Bon

Got a ship with women and cats aboard, you'll have the finest luck you can hope — Scott Lynch

The greatest guilt of today is that of people who accept collectivism by moral default; the people who seek protection from the necessity of taking a stand, by refusing to admit to themselves the nature of that which they are accepting; the people who support plans specifically designed to achieve serfdom, but hide behind the empty assertion that they are lovers of freedom, with no concrete meaning attached to the word; the people who believe that the content of ideas need not be examined, that principles need not be defined, and that facts can be eliminated by keeping one's eyes shut. They expect, when they find themselves in a world of bloody ruins and concentration camps, to escape moral responsibility by wailing: But I didn't mean this! — Ayn Rand

Freedom is not enough. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art, — James Agee

Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders. — Amanda Ripley

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong

Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for all men, irrespective of nationality, color, or religion; ... leave the matter of religious teaching to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contribution. Keep church and state forever separate. — Ulysses S. Grant

Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to sit on your imagination. — Sam Snead

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom — M. Scott Peck

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul. — Vikram Chatwal

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job. — Samuel Goldwyn