Second - Quotes
It says here the retail industry does 50% of its business between December 1st and December 25th. That's half a year's business in one month's time. It seems to me, an intelligent country would legislate a second such gift giving holiday. Create, say, a Christmas 2, late May, early June, to further stimulate growth.
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine.
The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.
A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
"Well, I don`t think rocks would be very interesting to God," I said. "They just sit on the ground and erode." "You think that way because you are unable to see the storm of activity at the rock`s molecular level or the level beneath that, and so on. And you are limited by your perception of time. If you watched a rock your entire life it would never look different. But if you were God and could observe the rock over fifteen billion years as though only a second had passed, the rock would be frantic with activity. It would be shrinking and growing and trading matter with its environment. Its molecules would travel the universe and become a partner to amazing things that we could never imagine. By contrast, the odd collection of molecules that make a human being will stay in that arrangement for less time than it takes the universe to blink.
Don`t ever try to mimic anybody, because you will only be second best.
You might get one job for having a famous parent, but you won`t get your second unless you`re good.
I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I`ll never love you any less than I do, right this second.
There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else - but persistent.