"I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."

-- Bernard Berenson

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“I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety.”
“What do you do when it seems as if people want to stay in their pain. They have a story to tell and they tell you every chance they get. Well, believe it or not, they may like where they are. Our job is to leave them there. You can point the way out of pain, but you cannot force them to get out. You can support the move beyond their limitations, but you cannot make the move for them.”
“Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I've done in my career.”
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
“The nation wept tears of remorse for their leader: the tear-gas accomplished what was expected.”
“Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better”
“It is still your work or role that finally gives you your definition in our society, and the thousands upon thousands of people who I believe are like me are those who have never found the professional skin to fit the riot in their souls .”

Source : Seymour Krim (1991). “What's this cat's story?: the best of Seymour Krim”, Paragon House Publishers
“A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.”

Source : "Following Words Through a Labyrinth" by David Orr, www.nytimes.com. October 6, 2011.

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