"Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity."

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Source : Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.301, Vintage

Sissela Bok

#Integrity Quotes #Foundation Quotes #Resources Quotes

“Leave it to you, Bella. Anyone else would be better off when the vampires left town. But you have to start hanging out with the first monsters you can find.”
“There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.”
“MY THEORY: the trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell in . . . If your mind has been deceived by some invisible enemy into a belief, you have put it into the form of a disease, with or without your knowledge. By my theory or truth I come in contact with your enemy and restore you to health and happiness.”

Source : Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (19??). “Christ Or Science: Chapter IV, the Quimby Manuscripts”
“Knowledge is like the carrot, few know by looking at the green top that the best part, the orange part, is there. Like the carrot, if you don't work for it, it will wither away and rot. And finally, like the carrot, there are a great many donkeys and jackasses that are associated with it.”
“Sometimes having no script, having no idea what is going to happen next, having no map, might be the way to go. Because life just happens, and when it does, how you handle it will teach you more about who you are than any class or test ever can. The best preparation for the rest of your life is, maybe, no preparation at all. Dive right in. Make mistakes. Break a few rules. Wing it.”

Source : Valerie Thomas, Stacy Kramer (2013). “From What I Remember”, p.267, Egmont UK
“Of course I have bills to pay, but at the same time, it's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.”
“Let us damn America, let us damn Israel, let us damn them and their allies until death.”
“A human being can never be broken”

Source : "The new bionics that let us run, climb and dance". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2014.

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