Fakir Institute Quotes

#1. I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.

William Eggleston

#2. One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.

Daniel Kahneman

#3. There were pockets within pockets, with a CorpSeCorps hand in each one of them.

Margaret Atwood

#4. Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.

John Frusciante

#5. Texans don't want to sit back and watch Austin turn into Washington, D.C. State leaders in power keep forcing people to opposite corners to prepare for a fight instead of coming together to get things done.

Wendy Davis

#6. The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.

T. S. Eliot

#7. Perhaps the two most valuable and satisfactory products of American civilization are the librarian on the one hand and the cocktail in the other.

Louis Stanley

#8. Work-life balance for founders doesn't look like work-life balance for everyone else. Starting a company isn't a nine-to-six job - or a nine-to-nine job, or a nine-to-midnight job.

Kathryn Minshew

#9. I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.

Josephine Baker

#10. Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions

Roland Barthes

#11. Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice. Choose to live a life that matters.

Michael Josephson

#12. The less you have, the more you enjoy.

Carine Roitfeld

#13. I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

Morgan Freeman

#14. I love period dramas and language, but I love comedy as well.

Robin McLeavy