"The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the Church of Christ by worldly ambition."

-- Hilary of Poitiers

#Ambition Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The team is never about the single player. It's not about the injury that keeps a star out of a certain game, and it's not about the coach. It's about the strength, and the abilities of the sum.”
“Production for the sake of production - the obsession with the rate of growth, whether in the capitalist market or in planned economies - leads to monstrous absurdities. The only acceptable finality of human activity is the production of a subjectivity that is auto-enriching its relation to the world in a continuous fashion.”

Source : Félix Guattari (1995). “Chaosmosis: An Ethico-aesthetic Paradigm”, p.21, Indiana University Press
“But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.”
“The speed will increase and the players will be better, but also the players around you will be a lot better. It all cancels itself out.”
“I said from the very beginning that I was looking for the best person, I had no doubt it was Roger Goodell.”
“There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.”
“What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.”

Source : Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.16, Vintage

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