Tasneem Qureshi Quotes & Sayings

Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man. — Paul Auster

I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting and where I'll end up, but I have no idea what will happen along the way. — Deb Caletti

He wouldn't know how to pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner. — Juvenal

Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him. — Erich Fromm

If we are to control our own future, it will be necessary, not only to obtain the cooperation of people, but to prepare comprehensive plans for that future. — Carl Eckart

God said "Let there be light" and George morgan flipped the switch. — Tara Sivec

The minute I was bored with a book or a subject I moved to another one, instead of giving up on reading altogether - when you are limited to the school material and you get bored, you have a tendency to give up and do nothing or play hooky out of discouragement.
The trick is to be bored with a specific book, rather than with the act of reading. So the number of the pages absorbed could grow faster than otherwise. And you find gold, so to speak, effortlessly, just as in rational but undirected trial-and-error-based research. It is exactly like options, trial and error, not getting stuck, bifurcating when necessary but keeping a sense of broad freedom and opportunism.
Trial and error is freedom. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

His face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects. — Philip Pullman

God save us from gloomy saints! — Teresa Of Avila