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Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

Annie Lennox

I had been fascinated with Islam since college - particularly how it could inspire such fervor in our modern age and move a significant number of its followers to horrific acts of violence. That invisible hand moved me to study more and more about Is...

Brad Thor

There are times when the presence of more choices can make us choose things that are not good for us. For me the clearest example is that the more retirement fund options a person has, the less likely they are to save for their old age.

Sheena Iyengar

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

Ted Cruz

The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's t...

Alex Chilton

I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great b...

Matt Cameron

I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically.

Alva Noto

I don't think neurobiology is going to replace aesthetics or art history. It's a parallel discipline that adds a new dimension. I always compare it to Leonardo da Vinci looking at the structure of the human body, and you learn more about how the join...

Eric Kandel

I was drawn to biology and history and, of course, art. And I loved languages. The biggest problem I had is that I wasn't taught about the connections between all these things. I think that would have given life a lot more meaning and it would be a l...

Hussein Chalayan

To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried to escape from Russia, the more deeply Russia swallowed them.

1Q84

Our body always tells us what it wants and needs—the question is whether we are listening.

21 Days to Better Balance: Find More Balance in a Busy World

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less

More than the clarity we need to have about what MUST change, we need to have even more clarity about what MUST NOT change...

The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership

[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.

Appreciations and criticisms of the works of Charles Dickens

If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life.

Anna Karenina

Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.

Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?

The Arkadians

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

Victoria Legrand

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves

Tools that provide simple ways of creating groups lead to new groups, [...] and not just more groups but more kinds of groups.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations