Damion Duncan

“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“This is how self-fulfilling prophecies work: we have an expectation about who someone is and how she’s likely to behave, then we treat her in a way that is likely to elicit those behaviors, thus confirming our initial expectations… and so on.”
― Amy Cuddy, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

“People can cry much easier than they can change.”
― James Baldwin

“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.”
― Ronald H. Coase, Essays on Economics and Economists