Pejman Yousefzadeh:
CLASS OF 1995
University of ChicagoClass of 1995
Chicago, IL
Pejman's Story
Pejman is from Chicago, Illinois. Pejman later attended University of Chicago (Political Science) .
Music Pejman likes includes Thomas Tallis, Baroque, Johannes Brahms. Books Pejman likes include Tale Of Two Cities, Book Porn, Heart of Darkness. Movies Pejman likes include Drama, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Annie Hall.
One of Pejman's favorite quotes is:"". . . The concept 'grace' has no meaning or good odor inter pares; there may be a sublime way of letting presents from above happen to one, as it were, and to drink them up thirstily like drops--but for this art and gesture the noble soul has no aptitude. Its egosim hinders it: quite generally it does not like to look 'up'--but either ahead, horizontally and slowly, or down: it knows itself to be at a height."
--Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil.
"If I have eight hours to fell a tree, I would spend four of them sharpening my axe."
"Towering genius disdains the beaten path."
--Abraham Lincoln
"Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most."
--Thucydides
"Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords."
--Theodore Roosevelt
"Speak softly and carry a big stick."
--Theodore Roosevelt
"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
--Friedrich Nietzsche
"We are what we repeatedly do; excellence then is not an act but a habit."
--Aristotle
"And let this always weigh down your feet like lead,
to make you move as slowly as a weary man,
to refrain from 'yes' or 'no' when you do not see ...
because hasty opinion too often
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for one's own opinion binds up the intellect."
--Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio XIII: 112-114, 118-120 (spoken by Aquinas).
It seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labour and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat-hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat-hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the adminstrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, feeble man...
--Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win."
--Robert Heinlein
"Modesty: The gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it."
--Oliver Herford
"In life, there is one elementary truth...that the moment one commits to boldness, then Providence moves in too, bringing a whole stream of undulant favorable events and material assistance. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it! Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"'Funny' is not the opposite of 'serious.' It is merely the opposite of 'unfunny.'"
--G.K. Chesterton
"To innovate is not to reform."
--Edmund Burke".
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