"I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand"

-- Tom Waits

#Wind Quotes #Rope Quotes #Sand Quotes

“Remember, it goes beyond reducing WIP. Being able to take needless work out of the system is more important than being able to put more work into the system.”

Source : Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford (2014). “The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win”, p.164, IT Revolution
“Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.”
“Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the entire society. The message they currently communicate is harsh and unambiguous: religion is offensive and should be kept out of public view.”
“It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.”

Source : Margaret J. Wheatley (2002). “Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future”, p.36, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.”

Source : Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”
“The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think of lending a shilling to their next-door neighbors, for purposes of honest industry, unless upon the most ample security, and at the highest rate of interest - stand ready, at all times, to lend money in unlimited amounts to those robbers and murderers, who call themselves governments, to be expended in shooting down those who do not submit quietly to being robbed and enslaved.”
“I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey.”
“Everybody wants to be great at something.”

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