Troldebakkens Quotes & Sayings

Humans are great optimizers. We look at everything around us, whether a cow, a house, or a share portfolio, and ask ourselves how we can manage it to get the best return. Our modus operandi is to break the things we're managing down into its component parts and understand how each part functions and what inputs will yield the greatest outputs . . . [but] the more you optimize elements of a complex system of humans and nature for some specific goal, the more you diminish that system's resilience. A drive for efficient optimal state outcome has the effect of making the total system more vulnerable to shocks and disturbances. — Stanley McChrystal

Neither the heart cut by a sliver of glass in a wasteland of thorns, nor the atrocious waters seen in the corners of certain houses, waters like eyelids and eyes, could hold your waist in my hands when my heart lifts its oak trees toward your unbreakable thread of snow. Night sugar, spirit of crowns, redeemed human blood, your kisses banish me, and a surge of water with remnants of the sea strikes the silences that wait for you surrounding the worn-out chairs, wearing doors away. — Pablo Neruda

What if all the myths and fairy tales were pointing to something that was not only true but also truer than anything we knew in this world, to a realm that was truer and more real? — Eric Metaxas

Isobel's heart crashed against the cage of her chest, beating against his. — Kelly Creagh

Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness. — Kathryn Minshew

a good theory is characterized by the fact that it makes a number of predictions that could in principle be disproved or falsified by observation. — Stephen Hawking

Larry and the pilot stood to one side, smoking, sharing that camaraderie of all people who are determined to blacken their lungs. — Laurell K. Hamilton

But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself. — Henry David Thoreau

Luck is for those with nothing else. I wish you strength and courage. — Annette Marie

Everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates ... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking ... — Baruch Spinoza

I'm going to keep speaking out about what Donald Trump says, because I'm getting messages from leaders around the world who are just bewildered. They want to know what's going on. — Hillary Clinton