“Professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from a hundred photographs, the prize being awarded to the competitor whose choice most nearly corresponds to the average preferences of the competitors as a whole.” MayWholeFacesChoicesSixPicksHundredCompetitionInvestmentPhotographAverageNewspapersPrizePreferenceCompetitorsPrettiest Book:General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money
“A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons do not turn off their lights at night, and I spent a sleepless night, without a mattress, with a five-hundred-watt bulb shining directly into my eyes.” IfsLightEyeNightTurnsChoicesFiveAdviceHundredPrisonShiningCellsTurn OffBulbsMattressesSleepless NightsBunkWords Of Advice Author:William Powell
“One hundred years ago, people were faced with the choice of learning to read or remaining illiterate laborers who would be left behind as have-nots in a rapidly modernizing world. In the coming century, being able to command a world that will be thoroughly computerized will set apart those who can live successfully in the future from those who will be utterly left behind.” PeopleWorldYearsWould BeAbleChoicesLeftBehindsCenturyHundredYears AgoCommandLeft BehindIlliterateLaborersLearning To Read Author:Yishan Wong
“We don't have a choice about Facebook any more. The choice element is less obvious than it seems. Maybe the 1bn poor people and a few hundred thousand rich people can afford not to be on it.. the rest of us don't have any choice.” PeopleSeemsChoicesPoorRichThousandElementsHundredObviousPoor PeopleRich People Author:Andrew Keen
“He'd once heard a story about a monastery on the top of some mountain in Japan or somewhere. After a long trek in the cold to get there, the monks would offer to sell you a cup of coffee. You had a choice: There was a two-dollar cup - or a two-hundred- dollar cup. When pressed to explain the difference, the monks were reported to say, 'A hundred and ninety-eight dollars.'” LongTwoStoriesChoicesDifferencesHeardColdOffersMountainHundredSellsDollarsEightCoffeeCupsJapanNinetyMonkCoffee CupMonasteriesNinety Eight Author:Steve Perry
“People have material needs, but you don't need a deodorant for every different day of the week. You don't need four hundred varieties of mustard. This is what I call too many choices. There are too many choices in America.” PeopleNeedsDifferentAmericaChoicesFourWeekMaterialsHundredVarietyMustardDays Of The WeekDeodorantDifferent Day Author:George Carlin
“Making a choice is like backing a horse - in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.” YearsMayChoicesHundredHorse Author:Edward Carpenter
“Think of a book special to you, and how much bleaker and poorer your life would be if that one writer had not existed - if that one writer had not, a hundred times or a thousand, made the choice to write. You're going to be that one writer one day for somebody you may never meet. Nobody can write that book you're going to write - that book that will light up and change up a life - but you.” IfsThinkingWritingMayMadeBookLightWould BeChoicesSpecialOne DayThousandHundredLight Up Author:Sarah Rees Brennan
“When I lived in the city, I had learned to close my door against a lot of the noise, but when I open my door here, I'm not opening into the possibility that I'm going to run into somebody or be faced with a hundred choices about what I'm going to do, or which cafe I'm going to go to, or which way to distract myself.” WayRunningChoicesCitiesDoorsPossibilityHundredNoiseOpeningCafes Author:Dani Shapiro
“I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.” MatterChoicesSituationHundredInterviews Author:Alanis Morissette
“Look, the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best or just expect the worst.” WayLifeLooksChoicesLeftWorstPercentHundredHoping For The Best Book:Lock and Key Source: Lock and Key
“The light beyond my eyes flashflashflashes with a hundred futures for me. Doctor. Ship's captain. Forest ranger. Librarian. Beloved of that man or that women or those children or those people who voted for me or who painted my picture. Poet. Acrobat. Engineer. Friend. Guardian. Avenging whirlwind. A million futures--not all pretty, not all long, but all of them mine. I do have a choice" - p. 271” PeopleMenChildrenLongLightEyeChoicesMillionsMinesPoetHundredDoctorsForestsShipsBelovedEngineersCaptainsGuardianLibrarianRangersWhirlwindAvenging Author:Laurie Halse Anderson