Unconsciously Incompetent Quotes & Sayings

Writers choose to drink because of their inability to cope with the daily hassles of being part of a society. Why shouldn't they? Every day an intelligent human being is plagued with bills, horrifying news stories and general idiocy that slowly grinds away at their psyche, breaking off pieces of it that may never fit again. — Thor Benson

I am myself. That is not enough. — Sylvia Plath

It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side? — Michael Fassbender

When everything that matters can be bought and sold, when commitments can be broken because they are no longer to our advantage, when shopping becomes salvation and advertising slogans become our litany, when our worth is measured by how much we earn and spend, then the market is destroying the very virtues on which in the long run it depends. — Jonathan Sacks

The best way in the world to advertise is to get somebody else to run around with the name of your product on their person or showing it around somewhere and not only that but they're paying for it. — Majel Barrett

This story of benign judicial neglect of Nazis and collaborators forms a striking contrast with the systematic repression of the Greek Left, which lasted for over two decades. — Mark Mazower

The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It's more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits. — Jodi Picoult

The mind can be convinced, but the heart must be won. — Simon Sinek

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts. — Billy Joel

In this way the world market is, with regard to its immanent dynamic, 'a space in which everyone has once been a productive labourer, and in which labour has everywhere begun to price itself out of the system'. — Slavoj Zizek

It just goes to show you: every baby is born beautiful.
It's what we project on them that makes them ugly. — Jodi Picoult

When you're trapped in a prison, and your heart is broken, and you can't move a finger because you don't know what to do, that's when you wake up. — Robin Gregory

Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends. — John Muir