"Wisdom is not developable, as if it's a matter of luck or personality or genetics. Well it's just not the case. Wisdom involves our accumulated knowledge about a subject but also a reverence for life, for an understanding that our immediate actions have long-term consequences, and for an appreciation that there are different ways of knowing and understanding situations."

--

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

Alan Briskin

#Appreciation Quotes #Personality Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Some days I woke up and got out of bed and brushed my teeth like any normal human being; some days I woke up and laid in bed and looked at the ceiling and wondered what the hell the point was of getting out of bed and brushing my teeth like any normal human being.”
“Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to.”

Source : Interview with Hilary Goldstein, www.ign.com. September 25, 2002.
“Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.”
“As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.”
“Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.”
“Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy.”
“Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love.”

Source : "Gilbert Arenas: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. September 23, 2010.
“I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.”

You may also like:

Angeles Arrien
Anthropologist
Lisel Mueller
Poet
David Batstone
Journalist