Short Randomness Quotes & Sayings

When the writing is really working, I think there is something like dreaming going on. I don't know how to draw the line between the conscious management of what you're doing and this state ... I would say that it's related to daydreaming. When I feel really engaged with a passage, I become so lost in it that I'm unaware of my real surroundings, totally involved in the pictures and sounds that that passage evokes. — John Hersey

The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice. — Earl Warren

It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth. — Faina Ranevskaya

I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me. — Halsey

When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories when it can, but will manufacture lies when it can't. — Jonathan Gottschall

I see a girl, soon to be a woman," Tibb continues. "The girl who will share your life. She will love you, she will betray you, and finally she will die for you. And it will all have been for nothing. All for nothing in the end. — Joseph Delaney

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. — Zelda Fitzgerald

Be sure that your reward systems actually reward what you say you value. Many organizations preach cooperative effort but reward only individual effort - — Hawthorne Publishers

Now, Tim has been really, really busy, and it's been my job now to kind of deal with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that, logistically it's a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much easier. — Susan Sarandon

Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver. — Aneurin Bevan

I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human. — John Trudell

Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected. — William Glasser

Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness. — Raisa Gorbacheva