"So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection."

-- Marc Andreessen

#Connections Quotes #Information Quotes #Environment Quotes

“We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard. But life has a way of humbling us, of softening us.”

Source : Philip Gulley (2009). “Home to Harmony”, p.35, Zondervan
“Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.”
“America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.”
“No longer dependent on 30 second spots, today's marketers need a never-ending stream of content.”
“What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things.”

Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.293, D & M Publishers
“There was no opposition organized against Bela Kun. Like Lenin he surrounded himself with commissaries having absolute authority. of the 32 principle commissaries 25 were Jews, a proportion nearly similar to that in Russia. The most important of them formed a Directory of five: Bela Kun alias Kohn, Bela Vaga (Weiss), Joseph Pogany (Schwartz), Sigismond Kunfi (Kunstatter), and another. Other chiefs were Alpari and Szamuelly who directed the Red Terror, as well as the executions and tortures of the bourgeoisie.”
“Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.”
“Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.”

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