The catastrophe of success Quotes

“Be proactive not reactive, for an apparently insignificant issue ignored today can spawn tomorrow's catastrophe.”

“He gave me a small smile, and in that smile I saw our whole catastrophic history playing out before my eyes.”

“It's a blip, not a catastrophe.”

“Boredom is that agitated space between relaxation and action; dialed down, it can become a pleasant kind of inertia or a meditative stillness, where it feels good to sit quietly with your own thoughts; cranked up a notch, it can produce creative release. But that middle place is the boredom itself – restlessness with no movement. A dull and desperate longing for something else. From Catastrophic Happiness.”

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”

“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.”

“Thunder and blood and night must usurp our parts, to complete and make up the catastrophe of this great piece.”

“Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.”

“An all-out attack on evolutionist thinking is possibly the only real hope our nations have of rescuing themselves from an inevitable social and moral catastrophe.”