Zero Sum Quotes

“What makes humans special is our need to rationalize our actions.”
― Barry Eisler, Zero Sum

“surfeit”
― Barry Eisler, Zero Sum

“It was a long time ago.” “I don’t think something like that can ever be a long time ago. It’s not how time works.”
― Barry Eisler, Zero Sum

“Context had reinforced familiarity, and familiarity had blinded them to new possibilities.”
― Barry Eisler, Zero Sum

“The mindfulness he spoke of was called nen in Japanese—an acknowledgment, an appreciation, of the importance of small things. The things that make living more worthwhile. And that, in my work, make it more probable, as well.”
― Barry Eisler, Zero Sum

“Is there any teacher better, more patient, more determined than fate?”
― Barry Eisler, Zero Sum

“I read Reinhold Niebuhr’s Moral Man and Immoral Society, where Niebuhr talked about how the baser self has to deceive the better self to get the better self’s buy-in for behavior it would never otherwise agree to.”
― Barry Eisler, Zero Sum