“Work incessantly, cultivate discrimination, gather freedom from your own hard-earned results. Disregard successes but go back for help in an immediate problem. The possibility of discovery is everywhere. Freedom from your own work allows for intuition that draws from all your experience and perception but goes beyond it.” HardHelpingProblemResultsPossibilityPerceptionDrawsDiscoveryPhotographerIntuitionDiscriminationDisregardIncessantly Book:Paul Caponigro Source: Paul Caponigro
“The basic issue of an American society which is fair, which is providing opportunity for all, is nowadays being replaced by the correct perception that we're living in a rigged economy - where it doesn't matter how hard you worked, the result will be all the income goes to the people at the very top. It's leading to a lot of frustration and anger, and people want some fundamental changes to the way we do economics and growth.” PeopleWayWantMatterHardOpportunityGrowthResultsEconomyIssuesPerceptionFairsEconomicsFundamentalsIncomeFrustrationProvidingReplacedAmerican SocietyRigged Author:Bernie Sanders
“The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely, they express the laws of mechanics for such systems as they appear to beings who have not the fineness of perception to enable them to appreciate quantities of the order of magnitude of those which relate to single particles, and who cannot repeat their experiments often enough to obtain any but the most probable results.” EnoughLawOrderResultsNumbersBehaviorPerceptionAppreciateDeterminedExperimentsRelateRepeatsQuantityMechanicParticlesMagnitudeThermodynamics Author:J. Willard Gibbs
“Rather, risk is a perception in each investor's mind that results from analysis of the probability and amount of potential loss from an investment. If an exploratory oil well proves to be a dry hole, it is called risky. If a bond defaults or a stock plunges in price, they are called risky. But if the well is a gusher, the bond matures on schedule, and the stock rallies strongly, can we say they weren't risky when the investment after it is concluded than was known when it was made.” IfsMindWellsMadeLossResultsKnownRiskAmountProvePerceptionInvestmentInvestingOilHolesAnalysisDryInvestorsSchedulesProbabilityPlungeDefault Author:Seth Klarman
“I hear people say they're going to write. I ask, when? They give me vague statements. Indefinite plans get dubious results. When we're concrete about our writing time, it alleviates that thin constant feeling of anxiety that writers have - we're barbecuing hot dogs, riding a bike, sailing out in the bay, shopping for shoes, even helping a sick friend, but somewhere nervously at the periphery of our perception we know we belong somewhere else - at our desk!” PeopleKnowsGivingWritingHelpingFeelingsAsksResultsPlansDogAnxietyPerceptionSickGive MeHotConstantShoesStatementsShoppingConcreteRidingDesksVagueSailingBikeSomewhere ElseDubiousAlleviateHot DogPeriphery Book:Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft Source: Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft