Summarised Quotes

#1. Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

Eleanor Catton

#2. The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.

Ramana Maharshi

#3. Isn't the initial loss that does for him, but the stupid plays he makes in an effort to deny that the loss has happened. The great economic psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky summarised the behaviour in their classic analysis of the psychology of risk:

Tim Harford

#4. Nobody can be set free from a problem until they're willing to admit they have one.

Joyce Meyer

#5. What which does not destroy you ... makes you a hella of a lot smarter. All very necessary to take you to a new spiritual level in your life.

Timothy Pina

#6. But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved.

John Knowles

#7. If we can keep at least a bit of the mind clear about temporality, we can mange complicated, even difficult, times with grace.

Sylvia Boorstein

#8. He was ready to stop trying to matter; he was ready to simply live.

Jess Walter

#9. Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good.

Brad Goreski

#11. a man cannot make himself believe a lie just because it profits him. Men

Charles Stross

#12. Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.

Alan Bersin

#13. The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

Anthony Gregory