Risky Business In China Quotes & Sayings

Risk heightens focus and flow follows focus. This means that the fight-or-flight response primes the body - chemically and psychologically - for the flow state. Athletes report moving through one to get to the other. — Steven Kotler

The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present. — Jose Parla

Come take a look at one of the oldest human urges- religion. After all, the only thing that makes us screwier is sex. — Lilith Saintcrow

The chair and desk and stuff, they change in the darkness. Like people change. And I lay in my bed and I think, you know, this is the way the chair really is. The way it looks in the daytime, that's just a foolie. It looks that way to make me think it's all right. But it's an ugly thing, a chair at night is. And I know even in the day that it's ugly underneath. It will be ugly again, when I'm alone with it. When it's dark...I'm scared of chairs... I try not to be scared of things. I try to fight it. But I'm not good at it. It's everywhere at once. It's like fighting the night. — Torey L. Hayden

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance. — Graham Parker

China is a political beast, with the Party at its heart, and the importance of political and regulatory due diligence cannot be overstated. — Jeremy Gordon

I've got really good people around me, and I feel really blessed to get to do everything I get to do, so to me it's a joy. — Lisa Rinna

All powers have two sides, the power to create and the power to destroy. We must recognize them both, but invest our gifts on the side of creation. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

It was highly possible that I saved that cookie from possible extinction. Ok, who was I kidding? When it came to cookie extinction, I was a world-ender. — Bradford Bates

Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It was both comforting and terrifying to go in to audition for 'The Girl in the Cafe,' as I'd worked with everyone in the room on 'State Of Play.' — Kelly Macdonald

God gives the best to those who leave the choice to Him. — Rochunga Pudaite

The people you work with should be either fully trusted or not trusted at all, so one should decide, who deserves to be trusted — Ernest Hemingway,