Autopoietic Quotes

#1. To assume you know someone well enough that you can and do predict their behavior and mental perspective is a gross and often tragic mistake, for it eliminates that person's freedom to create his or her own opinion and drastically affects the emerging picture of the relationship.

Meredith L. Young-Sowers

#2. It's not easy when you come in as the highest-paid player and you're 14.

Freddy Adu

#3. Commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

Charles Fourier

#4. It is difficult, my dear Lucius, to escape becoming the person others believe one to be. A slave is twice enslaved, once by his chains and once again by the glances that fall upon him and say thou slave.

Thornton Wilder

#5. Some things don't rest easy, even when they're dead. Their bones cry out from the ground.

Stephen King

#6. my mother knew that no woman thought she was beautiful, or beautiful enough, or beautiful in the right way.

Ann Patchett

#7. The most important thing is to stay the course - not to get shaken out of the market during a difficult time.

John W. Rogers Jr.

#8. What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?

Dillon Burroughs

#9. I wouldn't serve a God who wouldn't speak to me.

George Foreman

Davis Miller

#10. Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away and when they're making their money, they're focused on 10x, 100x returns on the dollar.

Peter Diamandis

#11. Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

W.B.Yeats

#12. I love the business of pro wrestling and it is something I know better than anything else I know about.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

#13. I am inevitable.

Clive Barker

#14. Love obsession often serves as a distraction, keeping the individual's gaze from more painful thoughts.

Irvin D. Yalom

#15. When a society has doubts about its future, it tends to produce spokesmen whose main appeal is to the emotions, who argue from intuitions, and whose claim to be truth-bearers rests solely on intense personal feeling.

Kenneth Tynan