“If you set a clear standard for yourself”— Related Quotes “Anyway—because we are readers, we don’t have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next—and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis—at any time of night or day.”— Kurt Vonnegut Jr. “A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.”— Friedrich Nietzsche “The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn’t produce money. Ideas produce money.”– Shimon Peres