Maxims And Arrows Quotes

People spoke of love as if it were an arrow. A thing that flew quick and always found its mark. They spoke of it as if it were a pleasant thing. But Maxim has taken an arrow once and knew it for what it was - excruciating. He had never wanted to fall in love.

People spoke of love as if it were an arrow. They spoke of it as if it were a pleasant thing, but Maxim had taken an arrow once, and knew it for what is was: excruciating. … The arrow's barb had so long healed. He'd forgotten the pain entirely. But now. Now he felt the wound, a shaft driven through his ribs. Scraping bone and lung with every ragged breath, and loss the hand twisting the arrow, trying to rend it free before it killed and doing so much damage in the process.

- was mich nicht umbringt macht mich stärker. What does not kill me makes me stronger. fragment, aphorism number 8 from the "Maxims and Arrows" section of Twilight of the Idols (1888)

arrow. Henrich argues that the reason people become so deferential (starstruck) toward prestigious people is that they are motivated to get close to prestigious people in order to maximize their own learning and raise their own prestige by association.

Richard tells about how two of his other major mentors, Thomas Schelling and Kenneth Arrow (both Nobel Prize winners), sought simplicity. Schelling, for example, regularly employed everyday and easily grasped examples, such as a parent negotiating with a child, as an analogy to a much more complex situation, such as an international negotiation. A Schelling lecture often moved from a simple example, say a stop sign, to a riff on a dozen critical issues that involved a metaphorical stop sign. One element of Arrow’s genius was to see, and then distill, simple principles, where others saw only murky complexities.[11]