"I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas. It's so easy to confuse schmoozing ability with talent. Someone seems like a good presenter, easy to get along with, and those traits are rewarded. Well, why is that? They're valuable traits, but we put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking."

-- Susan Cain

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Worry Quotes

“Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth.”
“America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.”
“They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life around the world. So those are the people I'm trying to attach my name to.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.”
“A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.”
“I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics.”

Source : "Locating Loss with Oliver Jeffers". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 20, 2014.
“I know God is working so I smile!”

Source : Song: I Smile, Album: Hello Fear
“A critic may reject some miracle stories as legendary, and not others, with no inconsistency at all for the simple reason that even if one holds miracles to be possible, one need not hold legends to be impossible! There are other factors, literary and historiographical ones, that might lead a critic to conclude that even though miracles can happen, it does not appear that in this or that case they did.”

Source : Robert M. Price (2008). “Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity”, p.116, Wildside Press LLC

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