Clockwork Quote by Charlie Munger Download Open image “If it happens every year like clockwork, what's so extraordinary about it?” — Charlie Munger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clockwork Extraordinary Happens Ifs Years
Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for. — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
“What a pity clocks don't realize the interesting work they do in making history, as they go on ticking out moments which never before… — Alice Muriel Williamson Copy Share Image
Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
... perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork... They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time. — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
“There is no universal clock, but local histories take form beneath our eyes, and begin to regulate themselves, and haltingly are linked to one… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Almost all good businesses engage in 'pain today, gain tomorrow' activities. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If you want good behavior, don't pay on a commission basis. Our judges aren't paid so much a case. We keep them pretty well… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I think time and time again, in reality, psychological notions and economic notions interplay, and the man who doesn't understand both is a damned… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I have what I call an iron prescription that helps me keep sane when I naturally drift toward preferring one ideology over another and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The tax code gives you an enormous advantage if you can find some things you can just sit with. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The great lesson in microeconomics is to discriminate between when technology is going to help you and when it's going to kill you. And… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Some years ago one oil company bought a fertilizer company, and every other major oil company practically ran out and bought a fertilizer company.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
They [Mc Donalds] take people and give them a first job, which enables them to get a second job. They do a very good… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We believe that almost all really good investment records will involve relatively little diversification. The basic idea that it was hard to find good… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper is scrambling… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Will closed his eyes. He could not hear Jem go, not anymore; he did not want to know the moment when he left and… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“I am not going to live, and I can choose to be as much for her as I can be, to burn as brightly… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
There is more to living than not dying," he said. "Look at the way you live Will. You burn as bright as a star. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I think there is something very consoling in feeling lost in space but also feeling grounded, and seeing that all of this is part… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
Miss Cecily," she gasped, and then her eyes went to Will. She clapped a hand over her mouth, turned, and bolted back into the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
In January we start saving money, getting out of credit card debt, funding our retirement accounts, and we're doing wonderful. Then, every single year… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Dear me," said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. "Is it because I'm better-looking than you? — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image