quotes about Gross Domestic Product

“What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.”

“I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.”

“Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.”

“I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.”

“Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.”

“Tonight I think again of many days that are sacrificed for one night of love. Of the waste and the fruit of the waste, of plenty and of fire. And how painlessly-time.”

“We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.”

“Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.”

Source : "Golf: The Game of Lessening Failures". Book by Bob Glanville, 2010.

“I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn't afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it's cool if she's a tomboy.”

“Dating is like pushing your tray along in a cafeteria. Nothing looks good, but you know you have to pick something by the time you reach the cashier.”