“People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.”
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“My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.”
“Some people want it all But I don't want nothing at all If it ain't you baby If I ain't got you baby Some people want diamond rings Some just want everything But everything means nothing If I ain't got you, Yeah”
“People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but it's actually not. As an industry it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it.”
“Approximately four years ago, we were told that Jerry Rice would be a free agent and there were people who felt that he no longer could contribute.”
“In general the languages of most unpolished people have a great force and energy of expression; and this is but natural. Uncultivated people are but ordinary observers of things, and not critical in distinguishing them; but, for that reason, they admire more, and are more affected with what they see, and therefore express themselves in a warmer and more passionate manner.”
“Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.”
“When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.”
“The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.”
“The people in the world, and the objects in it, and the world as a whole, are not absolute things, but on the contrary, are the phenomena of perception... If we were all alike: if we were millions of people saying do, re, mi, in unison, One poet would be enough... But we are not alone, and everything needs expounding all the time because, as people live and die, each one perceiving life and death for himself, and mostly by and in himself, there develops a curiosity about the perceptions of others. This is what makes it possible to go on saying new things about old things.”
“I look for businesses in which I think I can predict what they're going to look like in ten to fifteen years time. Take Wrigley's chewing gum. I don't think the internet is going to change how people chew gum.”
“Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.”
“I've made money over the years by buying into good companies, run by good people, at attractive prices. And I don't try and make it out of buying into the market at one point and selling at another point.”
“The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.”
“In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.”
“For some reason people take their cues from price action rather than from values. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
“Equities will do well over time - you just have to avoid getting excited when other people are getting excited.”
“Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, how can I possibly change, this is my nature, I can't help it - that are just memes”
“If you're blaming something or someone else for the way you are, then that person, those people, those circumstances or those energies, are going to have to change in order for you to get better; that's most likely never going to happen. It's also a way to manipulate other people.”
“When enough electrons within an atom get aligned and a critical mass is reached - as soon as you hit that hundredth monkey, as soon as you hit the one - you have phase transition, and all the rest of the electrons automatically make the change. My mission - what I teach and what I believe in - is that you just get yourself aligned with God-consciousness. If we teach enough people to do it - if enough of us ultimately get there - then we'll start electing leaders with this kind of consciousness. We'll start seeing kinds of shifts taking their place.”