"Most argument, and in fact most conflict, has nothing to do with the present. It's always about the past or the future. People can't agree on the details of what has happened or is going to happen. But we rarely know what has happened, and we never know what is going to happen. What is really at dispute is how we will deal with not knowing."

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Source : Steven Galloway (2014). “The Confabulist: A Novel”, p.115, Penguin

Steven Galloway

#Past Quotes #Knowing Quotes #People Quotes

“People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated.”
“We're not going to do anything different for this game since we're not treating this game any different than another game. Every game is a championship game for us, so we'll treat this one, the last one and the next one exactly the same. And that goes for our practices leading up to it as well.”
“Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.”

Source : Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”
“Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.”
“The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?”
“When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself.”
“I feel like humans are a disease. It's a hard thing to communicate in a pop song. I mean, who wants to hear that?”

Source : Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. July 29, 2014.
“Self-esteem doesn't come simply from dressing well, but they are both something we can control. It's a missed opportunity when women say they don't have the money, figure, etc., because style is such a way to help cultivate the way women feel about themselves.”

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