"Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading."

-- Florence Nightingale

#Average Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance-these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community.”
“You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.”
“It seems absolutely wrong that people should be able to profit in this cynical way from an event that is designed to highlight the need for action on poverty in Africa, and for which so many artists and others are donating their valuable time for nothing [on people selling Live8 concert tickets on eBay]”
“All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.”
“Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras.”

Source : "‘The Empathic Civilization’: Rethinking Human Nature in the Biosphere Era" by Jeremy Rifkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.”
“Sometimes it takes you awhile to get to it, but you always get there, and what you say is always worth waiting for.”

Source : Suzanne Brockmann (2002). “Out of Control”, p.440, Ballantine Books
“I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?”

Source : "Lucinda Williams enjoying success from a lotus position" by Eric Schumacher Rasmussen, www.mtv.com. June 13, 2001.

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