"Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge. What turns the gears in our brains isn't information, but ideas, inventions, and inspiration. Knowledge-not information-implies understanding. And beyond knowledge lies what we should be seeking: wisdom."

-- Clifford Stoll

#Lying Quotes #Ocean Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.”
“As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.”

Source : Dominique Moceanu (2012). “Off Balance: A Memoir”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
“I feel it's important, in presenting a work of art, that everything ends up serving a purpose. There are all these variables involved - large and small, obvious and ephemeral - and each has the potential to become an active, considered part of the work. So my goal is simply to approach each step as an opportunity to produce work that carries visual weight but retains this sense of openness and possibility.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“In that process of coming to know that which we name as divine, the God who is love is slowly transformed into the love that is God. Let me repeat that...We breathe love in, and we breathe love out. It is omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent. It is never exhausted, always expanding. When I try to describe this reality, words fail me; so I simply utter the name God. That name, however, is no longer for me the name of a being...”
“I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.”
“I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love or intensity of feeling that does not bring with it the possibility of a crippling hurt. But, it is a duty to take that risk and love without reserve or defense.”
“Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.”

Source : Errico Malatesta, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress) (1933). “A talk between two workers”
“The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.”

Source : Ma Jaya Bhagavati (2011). “The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom From The Patterns That Bind You”, p.85, BookBaby

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