Make your own bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The blast of a trumpet →
Direction →
A step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
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Understanding →
When you want to know how things really work, study them when they’re coming apart.
~ William Gibson
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Silence →
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Silence →
If there was a little more silence, if we all kept quiet… maybe we could understand something.
~ Federico Fellini
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Automation →
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
~ Warren Bennis
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Jerks →
In my opinion, we don’t devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
~ Bill Watterson
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True progress →
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 →
…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 →
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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