Piattelli Winery Quotes & Sayings

Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Confidence is a static state. Determination is active. Determination allows for doubt and for humility - both of which are critical in the world today. There is so much that we don't know, and so much that we know we don't know. To be overly confident or without doubt seems silly to me. Determination, on the other hand, is a commitment to win, a commitment to fight the good fight. — Anna Deavere Smith

It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.
But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know. — Lauren Oliver

How old are you?"
"Seventeen," he answered promptly.
"And how long have you been seventeen?"
His lips twitched as he stared at the road. "A while," he admitted at last. — Stephenie Meyer

Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced. — Gottfried Leibniz

It's very easy to be number one; find the guy who is number one, and score one point higher than he does. — Paul Kalanithi

The best innovations - both socially and economically - come from the pursuit of ideals that are noble and timeless: joy, wisdom, beauty, truth, equality, community, sustainability and, most of all, love. These are the things we live for, and the innovations that really make a difference are the ones that are life-enhancing. And that's why the heart of innovation is a desire to re-enchant the world. — Gary Hamel

We're always taught that bad things happen to bad people and we believe that we're somehow above experiencing a tragedy, but we learned that's all bullshit. — Matt Abrams

If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too. — Erich Fromm

I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen. — Olivia Colman

It has always been my belief that, for everyone who is ready and willing, there is a place. it seems to wait for him or her, in some good human cause. Causes are man-made, to be sure, and in the long run, I believe man can control the destiny of civilization on this earth. And yet I know that, beyond it all, there is an everlasting purpose, and within each one of us there is that lonely something that links us with Divinity. The link is there, to be used or disregarded. Each must make his own choice. p.117-118 — Wilder Penfield

The sky was the color of Edgar Allen Poe's pajamas. — Tom Robbins