“At least the statue didn’t rumble, “DIE, UNBELIEVERS!” and zap the mortals to dust. Reyna had once dealt with a statue of the goddess Diana like that. It hadn’t been her most relaxing day.”
Source: The Blood of Olympus
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In a discussion thread https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cgrvvp9QzjiFuYwLi/high-status-and-stupidity-why#64QSdqdMekvGrpuaH on LessWrong, January 2010
Context: One solution [to the problem that high status might cause stupidity] that might work (and I think has worked for me, although I didn't consciously choose it) is to periodically start over. Once you've achieved recognition in some area, and no longer have as much interest in it as you used to, go into a different community focused on a different topic, and start over from a low-status (or at least not very high status) position.
As quoted in Cnaan Liphshiz. Obama ‘chickened out’ of confronting mullahs http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=272989. The Jerusalem Post. July 6, 2012.
Interviews, 2012
“Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue.”
http://www.ironmaiden.com/index.php?categoryid=8&p2_articleid=917
“Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.”
“Mary is embarrassed, because the people are bowing down to statues of her.”
Chick tracts, " Why Is Mary Crying? http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0040/0040_01.asp" (1987)
The New York Times, March 25, 2007.
“You are fifty years old and would worship a day old statue!”
Abraham in Genesis Rabbah 38.13 R. Hiyya and the Idol Shop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_and_the_Idol_Shop|Abraham
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