"Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting."

-- Julian Barbour

#People Quotes #Profound Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“I have no ego. There is no way you can have a big ego and survive in this [show]business. You can't learn if you think no one else has anything to say that's of value.”
“There seems to be some pleasure for women in sick talk of one another.”
“Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing as meaningless violence. Every violent act had a meaning for the person who committed it. Only when you dared accept this truth could you hope to turn society in another direction.”

Source : FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Jul 29, 2011
“At best, I think of a director as a magnet. You get all the metal fillings in all the individual actors and crew, and get those filings moving toward your magnetic direction.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
“Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the weaker,-the more vigorous overgrowing and killing the more delicate. Every modification of climate, every disturbance of the soil, every interference with the existing vegetation of an area, favours some species at the expense of others.”

Source : Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Thomson (1855). “Introductory essay to the Flora Indica: including preliminary observations on the study of Indian botany; a summary of the labours of Indian botanists; a sketch of the meteorology of India; outlines of the physical geography and botany of the provinces of India: With 2 Maps. By J. D. Hooker and Thomas Thomson. Reprinted from the "Flora Indica"”, p.41
“Maybe he didnâ€™t really encourage me to do things, but he didnâ€™t prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didnâ€™t do things because I didnâ€™t want him to think different about me. But the thing is, I wasnâ€™t being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didnâ€™t really even know me?”
“Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.”

Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.253, Simon and Schuster
“true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude”

Source : William Wilberforce, Kevin Belmonte, Garth M. Rosell, Charles Colson (2006). “A Practical View of Christianity”, p.255, Hendrickson Publishers

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