"In the chapter on study we considered the importance of observing ourselves to see how often our speech is a frantic attempt to explain and justify our actions. Having seen this in ourselves, let's experiment with doing deeds without any words of explanation whatever. We note our sense of fear that people will misunderstand why we have done what we have done. We seek to allow God to be our justifier."

-- Richard J. Foster

#People Quotes #Done Quotes #Deeds Quotes

“Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.”
“Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.”
“Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.”

Source : Ernest Becker (1985). “Escape from Evil”, Free Press
“Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.”
“Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.”
“I Rushed to get back before it was time.”
“O Allah! Pardon my sins. Yes, I come.”
“Aristotle thought that humans are rational animals and Hobbes thought that we act on the basis of rational self-interest. If only! It's not that we never do these things, it's that they are hardly constituative of who and what we are.”

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