Takapuna Boardshorts Quotes & Sayings

Think about yourself because no one has time to think about you. Everyone is busy thinking about themselves. — Debasish Mridha

If there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding. So there is a logic to natural things that is much superior to our own. Just as there is a dichotomy in law: 'innocent until proven guilty' as opposed to 'guilty until proven innocent', let me express my rule as follows: what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you are heavy luggage, it does not matter where you go. You will still find the journey tedious — Srividya Srinivasan

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children. — Pat Buchanan

World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there. — M. John Harrison

Anybody whose calling is to guide souls should have his own soul guided first, so that he knows what it means to deal with the human soul. Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people. It would not help you very much to study books only, though it is indispensible too. But it would help you most to have a personal insight into the secrets of the human soul. Otherwise everything remains a clever intellectual trick, consisting of empty words and leading to empty talk. — C. G. Jung

This new, telegraphic writing style also influenced public speaking: short sound bites became popular because they were easier for stenographers to transcribe, and cheaper and quicker for reporters to transmit. — Tom Standage

The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught. — Lemony Snicket

People are made up of so many small details. Some - like the smell of cookies baking - we can recreate. Or at least try. — Victoria Schwab

In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it. — Phil Klay