Registrul General De Evidenta Quotes & Sayings

Some libertarians use the example of Drachten, a town in the Netherlands, in which a dream experiment was conducted. All street signs were removed. The deregulation led to an increase in safety, confirming the antifragility of attention at work, how it is whetted by a sense of danger and responsibility. As a result, many German and Dutch towns have reduced the number of street signs. We saw a version of the Drachten effect in Chapter 2 in the discussion of the automation of planes, which produces the exact opposite effect than what is intended by making pilots lose alertness. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Within everyday a miracle comes into your life. Sometimes, you just have to keep the faith and patiently wait for that special moment that keeps you believing in yourself. — Jes Fuhrmann

Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing. — Aaron Tveit

Awareness without action is worthless. — Phillip C. McGraw

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed. — William Shakespeare

Seventy years after Marx's death, one third of the human race lived under regimes ruled by communist parties which claimed to represent his ideas and realise his aspirations. — Eric Hobsbawm

This is my manifesto. My attempt to nudge people toward something, or back toward something. Toward what? An understanding that most of us already have on a deeper level. That a world exists outside of us. A world that reminds us that we are animals, too, animals who have evolved along with other animals on this earth. Thinking, planning, scheming, talking, writing animals, but animals nonetheless. — David Gessner

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors. — Antonio Porchia

Each question would open a door. What Glenn had to ask herself was, did she want to step through them to the other side? — Jeff Hirsch

This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth. — Steve Almond

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way. — Alex Kapranos

I like singing, but it's certainly not my strong point. — Moby