#ang

That's why I want you there, he said. You're unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people. ↗

— Kim Harrison

#the-hollows #trent #anger

He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind. ↗

— Daniel De Leon

#behind #change #changed #does #earth

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times. ↗

— John Selden

#nothing #people #people say #say #times

The game, whatever it was, had to be played out. If the change of rooms had been the opening gambit, so much the better. The game had to begin somewhere. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#change

The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change? ↗

— William Badke

#information #information-literacy #students #teaching #change

I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine. ↗

— Primo Levi

#beautiful #exchange #house #i #inside

One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

#investors #limit #market #order #price

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. ↗

— Kurt Lewin

#something #truly #try #understand #want

It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world. ↗

— Susan Ertz

#new-york-city #anger

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. ↗