Merlin Mann Back To Work Quotes & Sayings

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure. — Elfriede Jelinek

I believe life's too short for compromises and bad fitting jeans — Lykke Li

You are born, go to school, and attend university in search of a husband. You get married - even if he is the worse man in the world - just so that others can't say no one wants you. You have children, grow old, and spend the end of your days watching passersby from a chair on the sidewalk, pretending to know everything about life yet unable to silence the voice in your heart that says: "You could try something else. — Paulo Coelho

The wise man once said invest young — Warren Buffett

Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them. — Thomas Jefferson

From beautiful do-overs on a long stretch of highway in Mexico, to many layers of life peeled away, filled with bottle caps and another car seat in the back of a minivan, time had tick-tocked its way to where it belonged. — Gail McHugh

How I would like to have them back, those pointless afternoons - the boredom, the aimlessness, the unformed possibilities. — Margaret Atwood

Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces. — Marvin Harris

We care about how many players you develop rather than how many trophies you win. — Claudio Reyna

Unlike the bough that
shook off her dead leaves violently
like a wet terrier,
unlike the beating of the butterfly,
her wings, against the cocoon,
some dreams never made a move. — V.S. Atbay