Premarket Dow Quotes & Sayings

People do more for their fellows than return favors and punish cheaters. They often perform generous acts without the slightest hope for payback ranging from leaving a tip in a restaurant they will never visit again to throwing themselves on a live grenade to save their brothers in arms. [Robert] Trivers together with the economists Robert Frank and Jack Hirshleifer has pointed out that pure magnanimity can evolve in an environment of people seeking to discriminate fair weather friends from loyal allies. Signs of heartfelt loyalty and generosity serve as guarantors of one s promises reducing a partner s worry that you will default on them. The best way to convince a skeptic that you are trustworthy and generous is to be trustworthy and generous. — Steven Pinker

The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote my life to reading and writing. — Pankaj Mishra

All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed. — Terry Pratchett

Acting doesn't have anything to do with listening to the words. We never really listen, in general conversation, to what the other person is saying. We listen to what they mean. And what they mean is often quite apart from the words. When you see a scene between two actors that goes really well you can be sure they're not listening to each other - they're feeling what the other person is trying to get at. Know what I mean? — Jack Lemmon

If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead. — Daniel Baldwin

Brent ... " She gasps, fingers running through my hair. "This is real. Tell me this is real."
My eyes jerk up to hers and I cup her jaw in one hand. "It's real. This is so real I can't stop shaking. — Emma Chase

I love fierce performers. — Ella Eyre

Give me violent revenge fantasies as a copying mechanism.
Flash.
Just give me my first oportunity.
Flash. — Chuck Palahniuk

The intention to be absolutely truthful and the willingness to put the benefit of all before personal benefit hold the power to change the world. — Ilchi Lee