"I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed."

-- Carl Sagan

#Thinking Quotes #Who We Are Quotes

“Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.”
“But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual one behind the moral. ... We can see quite well that our opinions of what is noble and good, our moral valuations, are powerful levers where action is concerned; but we must begin by refining these opinions and independently creating for ourselves new tables of values.”
“My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.”
“We don't have to remain in this radically destructive mind-set and institutional-set. We can change, and the natural order of things could emerge in all of our societal organizations-government, commerce, religion-it's right there, waiting to happen. I often tell people that every mind is like a room in an old house, stuffed with very old furniture. Take any space in your mind and empty it of your old conceptions and new ones will rush in, good or bad. So change is more a getting rid of rather than an adding to or an acquiring.”
“I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.”
“If the process don't transfer, they cannot even be called thinking. They can be called learning, memory, or habit, but not thinking. The purpose of a course on thinking is to enhance student's abilities to face new challenges and to attack novel problems confidently, rationally and productively.”
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
“And perhaps, those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films, with women at the center are niche experience, they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.”

Source : "Oscars Transcripts from All the Acceptance Speeches!". Article by Sam Coffey, www.awardscircuit.com. March 3, 2014.

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