"Japoneese people take themselves very serious and you can see it by everything they do - it's like a different part of the scale or spectrum in being a human, and it's something we're not used to seeing in America. And then when you see it, you do have the moments of infatuation; you get caught up in it, but there's so much more to it."

-- Stephen Bruner

#People Quotes #Different Quotes #Serious Quotes

“And if you are somebody who needs to get a pat on the back for everything that you do, editorial is not for you.”
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
“You need to react. That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now.”
“I really do not understand the members of my generation.”
“Our Lord Jesus is ever giving, and does not for a solitary instant withdraw his hand. As long as there is a vessel of grace not yet full to the brim, the oil shall not be stayed. He is a sun ever-shining; he is manna always falling round the camp; he is a rock in the desert, ever sending out streams of life from his smitten side; the rain of his grace is always dropping; the river of his bounty is ever-flowing, and the well-spring of his love is constantly overflowing.”
“But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.”
“Suggesting evil is human doesnâ€™t mean we can always understand it.”

Source : "Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero". Interview with Helen Whitney, www.pbs.org. 2002.
“Be sure to â€˜noticeâ€™ ideas when you have them. Stop. Take the time to consider them seriously. And if your gut tells you they're compelling, be fearless in their pursuit . we live life only once. So, rather than avoiding the risk of trying, avoid the risk of not trying. Nothing is more haunting than thinking, â€˜I wish I hadâ€™.”

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