“I used to work out in the gym a lot when I was younger. I was a competition body builder when I was 16 or something crazy like that for a short period of time. So, the gym is quite familiar and I know what I'm doing there.” KnowsBodyUsedCrazyPeriodsCompetitionWork OutFamiliarGymBuilderBody Builder Author:Guy Pearce
“I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.” KnowsChildrenSchoolFoundEasyKnow HowTeacherFiguresPeriodsFitWork OutHandleBoredSarcasticArrogantTypicalGreyPsychologistIrritatingWithdrawingYoungest ChildOver ConfidentVery SarcasticHandle Me Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“If you're going to buy something which compounds for 30 years at 15% per annum and you pay one 35% tax at the very end, the way that works out is that after taxes, you keep 13.3% per annum. In contrast, if you bought the same investment, but had to pay taxes every year of 35% out of the 15% that you earned, then your return would be 15% minus 35% of 15%-or only 9.75% per year compounded. So the difference there is over 3.5%. And what 3.5% does to the numbers over long holding periods like 30 years is truly eye-opening.” IfsWayYearsLongDoeEndsWould BeEyeDifferencesNumbersPayReturnPeriodsTaxesInvestmentWork OutOpeningContrastCompoundsMinusEye Opening Author:Charlie Munger
“Meeting people is difficult, period. LA is a difficult place to meet people anyway, and Hollywood is such a small community. But I don't make it a rule just to date other actors and people in the entertainment industry. It could work out with me and a dentist. It could work out with me and a lawyer.” PeopleActorsDifficultCommunityIndustryPeriodsHollywoodMeetingsEntertainmentWork OutLawyerDentistEntertainment IndustrySmall Communities Author:Eva Longoria
“There was a period there where I was like, "No, no, no, this is crazy. I don't want to take any more drawing classes and talk about what looks best. I want to study math and psychology and physics and all these nerdy things with computers." That was fun and great, but that didn't work out. At the end of high school, I was like, "Uhh, what's easier? Drawing is easier, I'll do that".” WantLooksEndsSchoolFunClassStudyPsychologyCrazyPeriodsEasierComputerHigh SchoolWork OutMathDrawingPhysicsNerdyHigh School Ending Author:James Pearse Connelly