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“Two things can get people to make efforts: if people want to get something, or if they want to get rid of something. Only, in ordinary conditions, without knowledge, people do not know what they can get rid of or what they can gain.”

People Ifs Knows Want Two Effort Conditions Ordinary Gains Two Things

Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“Often poetry, especially the sort of poetry I write, is concerned with looking at the borders between the sensual and the spiritual and seeing them as divided, equivocal, that mystery somehow can break in to the ordinary. And we read poetry I think in part, to gain a sense of that intimacy with things that we can't understand that are unable to be understood but that buoy up our lives.”

Thinking Writing Spiritual Break Our Lives Seeing Mystery Ordinary Understood Gains Concerned Sensual Intimacy Borders Divided Buoys

Author:Kevin Hart

“The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem is to transform without deforming. He must gain intensity in form and content by bringing a subjective order into an objective chaos.”

Giving Problem Reality Form Order Ordinary Gains Cameras Chaos Photographer Objectives Intensity Subjective Facilitate Giving In

Author:Ernst Haas

“And your brain doesn't naturally know how to think the way Zeckhauser knows how to play bridge. "for example," people do not react symmetrically to loss and gain. Well maybe a great bridge player like Zeckhauser does, but that's a trained response. Ordinary people, subconsciously affected by their inborn tendencies.”

People Thinking Knows Way Wells Doe Play Loss Brain Know How Player Example Ordinary Gains Response Tendencies Bridges Affected Ordinary People

Author:Charlie Munger

“Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.”

Men Loses Greatness Ordinary Gains Great Men Fierce Ordinary Man Greatness Of Man

Book:Classical dialogues, Greek and Roman

Source: Classical dialogues, Greek and Roman

“If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.”

People Ifs Made Country Facts Bigs Would Be Pay Higher Taxes Ordinary Gains Rate Income Secretary Percentages Chunks Buffett Capital Gains

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires best ideal perform as mediocre. No gain attention showboat. No buffoon. Best effort so occur average. Suppress climbing ego. Become ordinary. Invisible.”

“When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.”

May Levels Awareness Discipline Ordinary Gains Extraordinary Seekers Entrances

Book:Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“The economic expansion that began in 2001, while it has been great for corporate profits, has yet to produce any significant gains for ordinary working Americans. And now it looks as if it never will.”

Ifs Looks Has Beens Environment Economic Produce Ordinary Gains Profit Significant Corporate Expansion

Author:Paul Krugman