"PowerPoint makes us stupid."

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Source : "We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint" by Elisabeth Bumiller, www.nytimes.com. April 26, 2010.

James Mattis

#Stupid Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Powerpoint Quotes

“I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.”
“At certain times, a silent mind is very important, but 'silent' does not mean closed. The silent mind is an alert, awakened mind; a mind seeking the nature of reality.”

Source : Thubten Yeshe, Lama Yeshe, Josh Bartok, Nicholas Ribush (2011). “When the Chocolate Runs Out”, p.133, Simon and Schuster
“If you want something hard enough, whether it be a material possession or just something in your life, if you work hard enough there is absolutely no reason why you can't obtain it.”
“A lot of journalists say, "Tell us about the '80s." Nobody wants to know about the '70s!”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.”
“I'm not like a legend that - so I'm sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, you know, I'm creating music, and I'm not saying there isn't an audience, because there is; because all of those people go out and spend $80 to $150 on a concert ticket.”
“It is a whole lot easier to see our problems in others than it is to see them in ourselves.”

Source : Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.125, Profile Books
“Growing up I wasn’t sure I was female. As I grew further I wanted to be a lesbian but I wasn’t sure I would meet even the most basic membership criteria (though eventually I created a ‘femme dyke’ persona that worked well for over fifteen years). It wasn’t until my early twenties that I was sure of at least one thing: I was an artist. Quite an accomplishment for anyone assigned female at birth in a culture that calls only male artists ‘great’.”

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