#sin

Nothing is illegal so long as you correct it before the SEC catches it. ↗

— Ali Sheikh

#economy #law #sec #business

You see we do, yet see you but our hands And this the bleeding business they have done: Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful ↗

— William Shakespeare

#business

Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness. ↗

— John Cage

#curiosity #value #business

The watercolor people hadn’t moved, hadn’t seen us, were still busy being dead and artistic. Good. ↗

— Devon Monk

#business

I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is a myth that writers are bohemian and do what they like in their own way. Real writers are the most organized people on the planet. You have to be. You’re doing the work and running your own business as well. It’s an incredibly organized state. [Also reading]…one of the things reading does do is discipline your mind. There are no writers who are not readers. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#online-interview #reading #writing #business

One might say that there is an "ethics barrier " a speed above which ethics can no longer exit. After that point the only remaining goal is to survive the immediate moment. ↗

— Pekka Himanen

#society #survival #business

A small profit it better than a big loss ↗

— Ron Rash

#choices #life #loss #profit #business

The whole crazy business seemed to pull out of my guts the very worst in me—my worst fears—the worst aspects of my character—my worst insecurities and feelings of shame and guilt. I didn't know it at the time, but that was exactly what was supposed to be happening. That's what Solomonic magick is all about. The worst in me was my problem. The worst in me was the demon. When it finally dawned on me that I had successfully evoked the demon, and I had the worst of me trapped in that magick Triangle, I had no alternative but to harness and redirect its monstrous power and give it new marching orders. From then on, that particular demon would be working for me rather than against me. ↗

— Lon Milo DuQuette

#demons #goetia #magick #solomonic-magick #business

The door was opening again. The seer does not like to dwell upon what he saw entering the room: he says it might be described as a frog - the size of a man - but it had scanty white hair about its head. It was busy about the truckle-beds, but not for long. The sound of cries - faint, as if coming out of a vast distance - but, even so, infinitely appalling, reached the ear. ("The Haunted Doll's House") ↗

— M.R. James

#monster #business

Parents are so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#business