Multi Platinum Steely Dan Quotes

#1. The popular conception of free will seems to rest on two assumptions: (1) that each of us could have behaved differently than we did in the past, and (2) that we are the conscious source of most of our thoughts and actions in the present.

Sam Harris

#2. If I feel any marginalisation, it's because the things that concern me aren't so important to other people.

Patti Smith

#3. Our pride, our ego, our fear of failing too often keeps us from achieving greatness, keeps us stuck in jobs we don't like, working with people we can't stand, engaging in pursuits we're not wholeheartedly passionate about.

Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution

#4. I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my sight and wound its way through my heart like a dream realized; its harebells, its rocks, and its rapids, are far more fixed in my memory than anything about the sea.

Lucy Larcom

#5. Remember--Adam was only God's rough draft, but Eve was his masterpiece.

Sam Torode

#6. If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice.

Conan O'Brien

#7. The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.

Paracelsus