Stella Esterhuizen Quotes

#1. He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do it. Relieving your feelings was fun, but the best course of action was to make things as difficult as possible for the person trying to make things difficult for you.

John Lanchester

#2. Yeah, I've worked with a couple of female directors, now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.

Alia Shawkat

#3. You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.

Leonard Cohen

#4. From Adam Smith's pin factory to Moore's Law of microchips, the division of labor drives the extension of the market, not the other way around. Supply creates its own demand through the proliferation of goods and services down the curves of learning, entropy, and imagination.

George Gilder

#5. A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.

Frederick The Great

#6. The era of procrastination ... is coming to a close ... we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement

Al Gore

#7. Religion was supposed to be a blanket drawn up to your chin to keep you warm, a promise that when it came to the end, you wouldn't die alone - but it could just as easily leave you shivering out in the cold, if WHAT you believed became more important than the fact THAT you believed.

Jodi Picoult