Quotes

A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.

True progress →

Published August 10, 2023  ·  All posts on Aug 10  ·  ,

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

~ Carl Sagan

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What we see →

Published August 9, 2023  ·  All posts on Aug 9  ·  ,

…we see what we believe, not the other way around. Rarely do we see the world as it is. Most of the time we are so busy compartmentalizing, judging, and ignoring what we can’t abide that we see almost nothing. We don’t see opportunities. We fail to see pain. And most of all, we refuse to see the danger in doing nothing. If you can’t see, you will never make art successfully.

~ Seth Godin

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The real challenge →

Published August 8, 2023  ·  All posts on Aug 8  ·  ,

Often it isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the little pebble in your shoe.

~ Muhammad Ali

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Your real job →

Published August 7, 2023  ·  All posts on Aug 7  ·  

I tell my students, when you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.

~ Toni Morrison

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Perspective →

Published August 6, 2023  ·  All posts on Aug 6  ·  , ,

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.

~ Miyamoto Musashi

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Truth →

Published August 5, 2023  ·  All posts on Aug 5  ·  , ,

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.

~ George Orwell

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Ignorance →

Published August 4, 2023  ·  All posts on Aug 4  ·  ,

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’.

~ Isaac Asimov

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Silence →

Published August 3, 2023  ·  All posts on Aug 3  ·  ,

I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished.

~ Djuna Barnes

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Change →

Published August 2, 2023  ·  All posts on Aug 2  ·  , ,

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

~ Buckminster Fuller

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Honesty →

Published August 1, 2023  ·  All posts on Aug 1  ·  , ,

Honesty always gets my attention. Not particularly someone who is honest to me, but someone who is honest with themselves.

~ Heath Ledger

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