Quotes from James Williams

Better than a sharp stick in the eye.

It's my firm conviction, now more than ever, that the degree to which we are able and willing to struggle for ownership of our attention is the degree to which we are free.

Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar.

The freedom of speech is meaningless without the freedom of attention, which is both its complement and prerequisite

Do we conjure up an image of a monster at whom to direct our blame, and take a path which, while psychologically rewarding, is likely to distract from the goal of enacting change in the real world? Or do we take the second path, and look head-on at the true nature of the system, as messy and psychologically indigestible as it seems to be?

Man is immortal till his work is done.

I think prices have been moving more on speculation than reality. But this is a market that has been driven by fear for two or three years.