Going - Quotes
Individuals don`t need to know where they are going; markets do. Leave people alone under a good structure and they will take care of things.
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year`s Day.
Success is nothing more than going from failure to failure with undiminished enthusiasm.
Everyone can be jealous. We all have that in us. Push the demon down or it`s going to drive the other person away.
Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, and then the same old shit starts up on Monday.
If you live to be eighty, you’ll have slept thirty years away, gone to school and sat with homework for nine, and worked for almost fourteen. Since you’ve already spent more than six years being little kids and playing, and you’re later going to be spending at least twelve cleaning house, cooking food, and looking after your own kids, it means you’ve got nine years at most to live.
There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn`t stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.
I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don`t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow.
Year`s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Creation is not an act but a process; it did not happen five or six thousand years ago but is going on before our eyes. Man is not compelled to be a mere spectator; he may become an assistant, a collaborator, a partner in the process of creation.