Swistak Farm Quotes & Sayings

Consciousness is eternal, and it is part of you. — Amy Leigh Mercree

More than almost anything else, the experience of parenthood exposes the gulf between our experiencing and remembering selves. Our experiencing selves tell researchers that we prefer doing the dishes
or napping, or shopping, or answering emails
to spending time with our kids. (I am very specifically referring here to Kahneman's study of 909 Texas women.) But our remembering selves tell researchers that no one
and nothing
provides us with so much joy as our children. It may not be the happiness we live day to day, but it's the happiness we think about, the happiness we summon and remember, the stuff that makes up our life-tales. — Jennifer Senior

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing. — Francis Joseph Sheed

The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled. — Eric Ries

What you put out into the world will always come back for you. — Dennis Lehane

I'm not as bearish as many others about China. Why? Because China must grow. So I am far more optimistic about China. — Joe Hockey

Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product. — George W. Romney

I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career has been concerned with writing about topography. — Jonathan Meades

In some ways it was the conventional clandestine affair in a place like San Bernardino, a place where little is bright or graceful, where it is routine to misplace the future and easy to start looking for it in bed. — Joan Didion

On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness
The tusks which clashed in mighty brawls
Of mastodons, are billiard balls.
The sword of Charlemagne the Just
Is Ferric Oxide, known as rust.
The grizzly bear, whose potent hug,
Was feared by all, is now a rug.
Great Caesar's bust is on the shelf,
And I don't feel so well myself. — Arthur Guiterman

Make a commitment today to something bigger and more important than yourself. — Brian Tracy

In the hands of food manufacturers, cheese has become an 'ingredient.' — Michael Moss

What is going on with you?" she says, shaking her head and pushing me away. "What's up with all the love and affection? I mean, you of all people, you of the eternal iPod-hoodie combo. — Alyson Noel