"We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that we succeed or fail on winning the battle against world poverty and managing climate change together. If we fail on one, we fail on the other."

-- Nicholas Stern

#Winning Quotes #Battle Quotes #Together Quotes

“I know the good Lord wouldn't give me any more than I can handle, but I sure wish he wouldn't have so much confidence in me.”
“When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and this guy there said, "You're going to be enlightened at the end of this week, that's my goal." I was the engineer, so I was recording everything at it was happening, but I was also participating, because I felt like it. So at the end of it, I did understand what enlightenment was, one-hundred percent.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I think the way design was practiced for most of the 20th century was very declarative. A designer came up with a solution for a project and put it in place and shipped the solution and it landed in a reader or a customer's hands as a brochure. They would see it as a poster, or as a piece of signage. And that was sort of it. That was the end of it. I think Internet technology has really upended that whole equation because in some ways a designer's work is never really done online.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.
“Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“One of the main reasons that I love doing what I do is because it's unpredictable and I don't know what's coming next. When you're creating work, it's up to you whether it's an exciting experience or not.”

Source : Source: chicago.gopride.com
“It's about using the right tools, with the right triggers, within a proper marketing framework”
“Each of us has about 100,000 [kinesins] running around, right now, inside each one of your 100 trillion cells. So no matter how lazy you feel, you're not really intrinsically doing nothing.”
“Night is not something to endure until dawn. It is an element, like wind or fire. Darkness is its own kingdom; it moves to its own laws, and many living things dwell in it.”

Source : Patricia A. McKillip (1979). “Riddle of Stars”

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