THEERADON SAKPETCH > THEERADON's Quotes

“The secret to being successful in any field is getting very interested in it... I could force myself to be fairly good in a lot of things, but I couldn't excel in anything in which I didn't have an intense interest”
― Peter Bevelin, All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There

“The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behaviour.”
― Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

“Be brave, be curious, be determined, overcome the odds. It can be done”
― Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

“The Market is thus not a magician, but simply the explanation of a mode of production, a mode where labor is the merchandise, a mode where the highest-bidding worker is the one who works the most, meaning the longest, in order to earn the least, and to allow the owner of the means of production to earn even more! (50)”
― Ronan de Calan, The Ghost of Karl Marx

“Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and beauty of the world. And it’s breathtaking.”
― Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

“While there’s life, there is hope.”
― Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Growing up signifies a loss. You think you are winning. Really you are losing yourself.”
― Milena Michiko Flašar, I Called Him Necktie

“Despite our lack of freedom we constantly make decisions and we have to take responsibility for them and their consequences. And so, with every decision we take we become less free.”
― Milena Michiko Flašar, I Called Him Necktie

“Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach. Then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.”
― Huey Newton

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre , Nausea

“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“You are -- your life, and nothing else.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.”
― Jean Paul Sarte

“Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Words are loaded pistols.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“In love, one and one are one.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends”
― Peter Bevelin, All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There

“Sorrow is often wisdom’s companion but it is better to learn from others sorrow to prevent our own”
― Peter Bevelin, A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes

“No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject”
― Peter Bevelin, All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There

“Trying to change our habits demands effort and effort takes energy - which is a cost. And our brains constantly look for ways to save effort. Furthermore, a change creates an uncomfortable feeling so naturally we try to avoid this feeling by not changing, That's why we take the easy way, favor shortcuts, and default options and stick to our habits. And the more emotional a decision is or the more choices we have, the more we prefer the status quo”
― Peter Bevelin