quotes about Cost Benefit Analysis

“The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.”

“What you've done is done. You've got a goal you never reach, and it's always farther away. It keeps you walking. I don't want to sit down.”

“But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky.”

“Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That's the challenge: To be afraid and know people are staring at you and know you might not do all that well, but you do it anyway. What singles out the successful athlete from the ones who never make it past a plateau, it that successful athletes risk failure, even though they are terrified.”

“In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.”

“The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit. Look through that astrolabe and become oceanic.”

“First is the man ...and then the music. If the man is not intact, the music will not happen.”

“Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.”

“From cheesecake on a stick to meat skewers to deep-fried bananas on a stick - there are no plates anymore. In Los Angeles, everything has become a corn dog. Actually, corn dogs still work. But most other food should be stickless.”

“Lying in bed, half-covered by the blankets, I would drowsily ask why he had come to my door that night long ago. It had become a ritual for us, as it does for all lovers: where, when, why? remember...I understand even old people rehearse their private religion of how they first loved, most guarded of secrets. And he would answer, sleep blurring his words, "Because I had to." The question and the answer were always the same. Why? Because I had to.”

Source : Margaret George (2010). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel”, p.751, Macmillan