Nancie Handy Quotes & Sayings

Many people look at successful entrepreneurs and think it's easy to get where they are at, but it really isn't. Many entrepreneurs work 16-18 hour days and thus have been able to achieve their high levels of success. — Jeet Banerjee

So what does all this mean if you desperately want to persuade someone who doesn't want to be persuaded?

The first step is to appreciate that your opponent's opinion is likely based less on fact and logic than on ideology and herd thinking. If you were to suggest this to his face, he would of course deny it. He is operating from a set of biases he cannot even see. As the behavioral sage Daniel Kahneman has written: "We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness." Few of us are immune to this blind spot. That goes for you, and that goes for the two of us as well. And so, as the basketball legend-cum-philosopher Kareem Abdul-Jabbar once put it, "It's easier to jump out of a plane - hopefully with a parachute - than it is to change your mind about an opinion. — Steven D. Levitt

We have a lot of historical and religious baggage in our culture. It's ancient; we are clannish as a species. We like things to fit into boxes, and it's unfortunate because humans are unique and should be celebrated and embraced as such. — Sherri Saum

The world is not made of countries and outsiders. We are all just humans, and most of us fools and all of us longing for more than we have, to know more than we know
and yet even that is not enough, for if we knew everything we would only be disappointed that there was not one more secret to uncover. — Catherynne M Valente

Get up seaweed brain — Rick Riordan

Personally, sometimes I'll lament the journey of an Asian-American actor, walking into audition rooms in 1999. — Kelvin Yu

I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do. — Tony Benn

We are here but for a second, but our impact ripples through time. — Neetal Parekh

There was something he wanted to say to Laura, and he was prepared to wait until he knew what it was. — Neil Gaiman

The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us. — Etty Hillesum