“I lived like a bear, in a little room, with books for my only friends . . . These were the joys and debaucheries of my youth.”
― Napoleon: A Life
― Napoleon: A Life
“Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes....”
― The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
― The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
“When you walk the walk, whether successful or not, you feel more indifferent and robust to people's opinion, freer, more real.”
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.”
― Chuck Close
― Chuck Close
“Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter”
― The 48 Laws of Power
― The 48 Laws of Power
KL Book Appreciation Club
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