"I have a blog where I keep in touch with my fans. I write about things that are important to me. Sometimes on there I'll just tell a little story about the things that happen in my everyday life. People seem to enjoy them well enough."

-- Patrick Rothfuss

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Everyday Quotes

“People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must be anchored to something. People tend to view the prices theyâ€™re used to as normal and prices removed from these levels as aberrant. This perpective leads people to trade counter to an emerging trend on the assumption that prices will eventually return to â€œnormalâ€. Therein lies the path to disaster.”
“"Humanism" is to be human, to think, to analyze, and to probe. To respond and to be stimulated by all living things - beasts, fowl, and fishes. To respond through touch, sight, smell, and sound to all things in nature - both organic and inorganic-to colors, shapes, and textures - to not only look at a blade of grass but to really see a blade of grass. These things, to me, are what life and living are all about. I would call it "Humanism."”
“I venture to claim two qualifications for the great office which I hold, which to my mind, without making invidious distinctions, is one of the most important that can be held by any Englishman; and those qualifications are that in the first place I believe in the British Empire, and in the second place I believe in the British race. I believe that the British race is the greatest of the governing races that the world has ever seen.”

Source : Joseph Chamberlain (1897). “Foreign & Colonial Speeches”, London ; New York : Routledge
“Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.”

Source : "Subcontact : Slap the Face of Fear and Wake Up Your Subconscious‎". Book by Dian Benson, 2001.
“When the people you've already worked with are very talented and you know what they can do, if you think of a character that happens to be perfect for them, then you make it happen.”
“As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.”
“If the church could catch a vision for using video technology to present an authentic presentation of the life of the church - not rehearsed videos, but spontaneous records of conversations, laughing with one another, weeping with one another, people sharing their lives, etc. - the average person might take notice.”
“People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.”

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