"Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds."

-- Emile Durkheim

#Mind Quotes #Environment Quotes #Social Quotes

“Sure, you can choose the safety and predictability of the cage, forfeiting the adventure God has destined for you. But you won't be the only one missing out or losing out. When you lack the courage to chase the Wild Goose, the opportunity costs are staggering. Who might not hear about the love of God if you don't seize the opportunity to tell them? Who might be stuck in poverty, stuck in ignorance, stuck in pain if you're not there to help free them? Where might the advance of God's kingdom in the world stall out because you weren't there on the front lines?”
“The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.”

Source : William H. Whyte (2012). “City: Rediscovering the Center”, p.7, University of Pennsylvania Press
“Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.”
“But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be it ever so much sought and cared for, appears in history and biography only in a more or less disfigured condition.”

Source : Frederick Niecks (2016). “Frederick Chopin”, p.709, Frederick Niecks
“Customers are speaking to you implicitly via their behavior, captured in the footprints they leave behind in your systems.”
“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
“What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?”
“I think it's dynamite, the way my career has just kept moving, even when people didn't know it did. I made such interesting films, but, yeah, they're not necessarily the big movies that go to the supermarket. I don't need those movies, because I don't wanna do them.”

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