Elli Izo > Elli's Quotes

“Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“The commonsense rules of the “real world” are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“people, even good people, will unknowingly abuse your time to the extent that you let them. Set good rules for all involved to minimize back-and-forth and meaningless communication.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich

“Call it “the New Year’s resolution effect”— it’s why gyms that were crowded in January are only half full in July and why so many slightly used guitars are available on Craigslist. So”
― Anders Ericsson, Peak: Secrets From The New Science of Expertise

“The Uses Of Sorrow

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver, Thirst

“An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”
― Edgar Wallace

“I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live - if I’m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“[pitching the proposal for Mononoke-hime (1997)] There cannot be a happy ending to the fight between the raging gods and humans. However, even in the middle of hatred and killings, there are things worth living for. A wonderful meeting, or a beautiful thing can exist. We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation. What we should depict is, how the boy understands the girl, and the process in which the girl opens her heart to the boy. At the end, the girl will say to the boy, "I love you, Ashitaka. But I cannot forgive humans." Smiling, the boy should say, "That is fine. Live with me.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“The villains are all parts of me. For years I've been wondering what it would be like if all those negative elements were forced onto the main character's side. I can understand a character with that kind of anger.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov”
― Isaac Asimov

“You can only miss so many swings in baseball before you have to admit you might not be a good hitter, but you can mangle grammar and syntax every day without ever realizing how poorly you speak.”
― Thomas M. Nichols, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters

“There is often sadness hibernating beneath your angry words. The sadness won’t kill you. The anger actually might.”
― Mark Wolynn, It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

“Eagles don't take flight lessons from chickens.”
― Ibhubesi the Great

“Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I will do what others can't.”
― Jerry Rice

“Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72”
― Mark Twain

“We don’t normally think of the empirical method as heretical, but it is. A person who can trust his own senses and reason doesn’t need authorities to explain his world. He can, in fact, defy authorities when the facts and his reasoning lead him there. And worse, he is trading their revelation for his observations.”
― Ron Davison, The Fourth Economy: Inventing Western Civilization

“To most people, the sheer wall of El Capitan in Yosemite valley is just a huge chunk of featureless rock. But to the climber it is an arena offering an endlessly complex symphony of mental and physical challenges.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Classic Work On How To Achieve Happiness: The Psychology of Happiness

“The early bird doesn’t necessarily get the worm as it might miss hours of sleep only to arrive in the wrong, wormless place.”
― Simon Constable, The WSJ Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators That Really Matter: From Big Macs to "Zombie Banks," the Indicators Smart Investors Watch to Beat the Market ... Forecasting

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
― Robert Frost

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
― Thomas Sowell

“I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.”
― Bill Murray

“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”
― Frederic Bastiat, The Law

“Enslavers made it a point to keep enslaved people as busy and exhausted as possible out of fear that idle time would give them the means to revolt or riot.21 Even more disturbing, enslaved people who tried to run away from bondage were seen as mentally ill and suffering from “runaway slave disorder.”22 By not accepting their proper role in society, they were demonstrating that they were broken and disturbed. This worldview became the foundation for American capitalism.23”
― Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist

“traders often believe that a set strategy should work in all environments, when, in fact, the best traders alter their strategy to adjust to the environment they’re in at the time. This continuous failure leads to the endless search for a new strategy, which ultimately creates more frustration and soon leads to yet another failure. The truth is that most people spend a lifetime searching out new trading strategies, on a cycle of continuous failure, whereas the successful trader spends a lifetime honing the strategy already consistent in bringing gains.”
― Tatro Quint, Trade the Trader: Know Your Competition and Find Your Edge for Profitable Trading

“If the landscape has shifted and now the vast majority of traders are positioning for the same outcome that should transpire, doesn’t it make sense that the odds of this transpiring has been dramatically reduced?”
― Tatro Quint, Trade the Trader: Know Your Competition and Find Your Edge for Profitable Trading