Plackett Boat Quotes

#1. You should banish any thoughts of how you may appear to others.

Marcus Aurelius

#2. Leningrad ... is a city with the gift of timelessness.

Jan Morris

#3. I don't subscribe to the thesis, 'Let the buyer beware,' I prefer the disregarded one that goes, 'Let the seller be honest.'

Isaac Asimov

#4. Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Bertrand Russell

#5. I don't want to be the next anyone. I'm just me.

Juliet Aubrey

#6. Practice trust in small matters for huge returns in the large ones.

Gina Greenlee

#7. I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it.

Maury Yeston

#8. In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.

James Surowiecki

#9. The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.

H.L. Mencken

#10. As a child I read all kinds of stuff, whether it was 'Asterix and Obelix' and 'Tin Tin' comic books, or 'Lord of the Rings,' or Frank Herbert's sci-fi. Or 'The Wind in the Willows.' Or 'Charlotte's Web.'

Mohsin Hamid

#11. Due to mistakenly believing that outer problems are their own problems, most people seek ultimate refuge in the wrong objects. As a result, their suffering and problems never end.

Kelsang Gyatso

#12. I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.

Alicia Witt