Twentynine Birthday Quotes & Sayings

Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid. — Mason Cooley

If you're not prepared, and you're not passionate, and you don't push yourself to a level of human exhaustion on every level, mentally and physically and creatively ... I've seen directors who approach it casually, and they do somehow maintain better hours ... but I could never be that guy. I am up and editing all night. — Drew Barrymore

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. — Marshall McLuhan

A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding. — Patrick O'Brian

(autarky does not encourage technological transfer). — Thomas Piketty

Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them. — Diane Ackerman

The universe doesn't allow perfection. — Stephen Hawking

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad. — Tacitus

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion. — Swami Vivekananda

The only thing that will defeat me will be if you don't love me the way i love you — Joan Elliott Pickart

your judgement judges you and defines you — Jean-Paul Sartre

America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way. — Ayn Rand

The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness. — Chogyam Trungpa

We are drawn to leaders and organizations that are good at communicating what they believe. Their ability to make us feel like we belong, to make us feel special, safe and not alone is part of what gives them the ability to inspire us. — Simon Sinek

The danger is in becoming so seduced by the lexiconic that we became lexiphanes. There's no excuse for indulging in the bombastic at any time, of course. — Murray Waldren