Hochstadter Isaacson Quotes

#1. Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy.

Clarice Lispector

#2. We are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#3. If all the members of a team have synchronized their energy and they have all subordinated their egos to success of the team, then we have a functioning unit. If we have a lot of hotshots who want attention, you won't really play that well.

Frederick Lenz

#4. When you are present, you are transcendent of the mind and ego and so you can witness your mind and ego. You can be conscious of your thoughts without being lost in them when they arise.

Leonard Jacobson

#5. Never say of anything that I've lost it, only that Ive given it back.

Epictetus

#6. When you're the author of your own fate, you don't want to write a tragedy.

Chris Hadfield

#7. I'm here because I know the sadness inside you. I know what it feels like to wake in the morning, lost and lonely and aching for someone to be there with me. (Sebastian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. If she is attractive, I can't perform with her; if she is not, then I won't.

Thomas Beecham

#9. Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit

Jawaharlal Nehru

#10. I believe I liked it better when she was yelling at me.

Gail Carriger

#11. The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another.

Terence McKenna