Ollikainen Quotes & Sayings

Add-1 with four digits caused a larger dilation than the task of holding seven digits for immediate recall. Add-3, which is much more difficult, — Daniel Kahneman

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are. — George Eliot

I met all these important people and did all these stories, but I always had such excellent producers and assistants. I could show up to interview a world leader or a criminal and they would have things so well prepared anyone could have done it. It wasn't about 'me,' it was about 'us.' — Mike Wallace

The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart ... — Plato

You know, darling, if caffeine ever makes it to the illegals list, you're going to have to register as an addict." "They try to make coffee an illegal, I'll kill them all, and it won't be an issue. — J.D. Robb

I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet. — Suzanne Collins

When you observe that today's controversies often reveal not relevance but the clash of the untaught with the wrongly taught, and when you can endure this knowledge without cynicism, as a lover of humankind, greater compensations will be open to you than a sense of your own importance or satisfaction in thinking about the unreliability of others. — Idries Shah

One of the more fascinating things about human behavior is the degree to which we conceive of countless boundaries that constrain and inhibit us in extraordinary ways, even though they are nothing but mental constructs that, in reality, do not exist. — Dee Hock

Forward, men, and mix with them. — Nathan Bedford Forrest

In order for the true energy of love to penetrate your soul, your soul must be as if you had just been born — Paulo Coelho

By taking the time to live life in the slow lane, we quickly experience a deeper, more profound experience of contentment. — Michael Neill

There is more good than bad. Life and love win if you let them. If you believe in them. — Liza Palmer

The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules. — Rupert Brooke

So how as a nation can we sit around and eat Mexican food, and drink beer and make friends? That's the question. If we can do that on a broader scale, I think we'll come out of it all right. — Sandra Day O'Connor