Larthegic Quotes & Sayings

Blogs are easy to start, but unless the author is famous, it takes years to build a following. — Adam D'Angelo

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience. — Chinua Achebe

James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy. — Charlie Haden

There's a buzz to failing and not dying. — Stephen Colbert

Our "default setting" is to be autonomous and self-directed. Unfortunately, circumstances - including outdated notions of "management" - often conspire to change that default setting and turn us from Type I to Type X. To encourage Type I behavior, and the high performance it enables, the first requirement is autonomy. People need autonomy over task (what they do), time (when they do it), team (who they do it with), and technique (how they do it). Organizations that have found inventive, sometimes radical, ways to boost autonomy are outperforming their competitors. — Daniel H. Pink

It was a fine cancer experience, as cancer experiences go. — Julia Sweeney

The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others. — Milton Friedman

We know no more than we did in 1975 - and that's not good — Lee Smolin

They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice ... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening. — Yusef Komunyakaa

In terms of economic growth, PIMCO originated the famous phrase the 'new normal.' — Bill Gross