Success Memes Quotes & Sayings

There may be room in government service for the altruist and the iconoclast, but I have yet to see one who was not treated as an oddity at best and at worst an object of suspicion and fear. — James Lee Burke

Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate criterion for the success of a meme must be its contribution to Darwinian "fitness". At bottom, they insist, a "good meme" spreads because brains are receptive to it, and the receptiveness of brains is ultimately shaped by (genetic) natural selection. — Richard Dawkins

Whatever I do, I do it because I want to do it and because it's completely, 100% me. — Wiz Khalifa

Music is religion for me. There'll be music in the hereafter, too. — Jimi Hendrix

Written words were so much harsher than spoken. — A. Lynden Rolland

The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates. — Jaron Lanier

Faith plus action equals transformation. — Charles F. Glassman

So much for the crusade against drugs ... all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive and lethal substances on the planet, waging war on all rivals, whether they take the form of the Thai domestic tobacco industry or the Colombian cocaine cartels. — Alexander Cockburn

But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even try; most of us just do what we do to prolong a moment's pleasure or to stop the pain. And even when we act for the noblest reasons, the last link of the chain all too often drips with someone's blood. — Stephen King

Go now and do no harm. No — Amy Harmon

Those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could see nothing but the pain, nothing but sand; but there were good moments too when she saw nothing but the joy, nothing but gold. — Leo Tolstoy

Subprime lending is growing faster in black areas than in white areas. — Bill Dedman