"The fact that the infrastructure is falling apart is not necessarily because it's built poorly. The New York City subways were built in 1903. The fact that they're still running at all is an enormous success. The fact that New York City's bridges have held up as long as they have is extraordinary, and the engineers didn't have computers to tell them about tolerance. They overbuilt these things - traffic on them is like an ant on an elephant."

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Alan Weisman

#Running Quotes #New York Quotes #Fall Quotes

“Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.”

Source : c.1400 Il Libro dell' Arte ('The Craftsman's Handbook').
“I've always thought that we have to bring our spirituality into our everyday life such as even brushing our teeth with God.”

Source : "An Interview with Dorothy MacLean, co-founder of Findhorn". Interview with Tanis Helliwell. Excerpted from a conversation in 1998, www.iitransform.com. March 2, 2015.
“I've been writing for myself since I was a teenager - I got into top-lining for some other artists/producers, but the focus was always on my own stuff.”
“The ability to see the good in others and the bad in ourselves is perfect vision.”
“All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story.”
“Tumultuouness,if coupled to discipline and cool mind,is not such a bad sort of thing.That unless one wants to live a stunningly boring life,one ought to terms with one`s darker side ad one`s darker energies”
“I've heard a few times, in three or four years, this league is going to be yours. I don't like that. Because I think I'm established now.”
“There is a vast difference between the outward clothing of the Spirit's power and the inward filling of the Spirit's life. In the first, despite the power, the hidden man of the heart may remain unchanged. In the latter, that monster is dealt with.”

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