"A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby."

-- Alexandra Bracken

#Eye Quotes #Blue Quotes #Rubies Quotes

“It's not so difficult to acknowledge that we lack wisdom. When we pray and seek God's wisdom with a longing for a deeper fullness of the life of Christ, then we will always find something to pursue.”
“Words have consequences, and I judge people not only by their words but what they do. And if you look at people who have a pattern, who've built a career out of dividing people and who built a career out of often not just Obama but finding ways to degrade and diminish African-Americans and African-American leaders. It's racist to consistently make your living on the backs of black people.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“Some jobs required a certain level of detachment; a turning off of emotions in order to do the things that needed to be done.”
“The biggest shortage in the world is not oil or foodÂ-it's leadership. Why is it such a scarce resource? Because egos get involved. Most people in top positions think they are better than somebody else, think they need something better than somebody else. It's economic assets, it's status, it's all those other things that prevent the people at the top from subordinating themselves totally to the people they lead. It is not socialism. Leaders get paid a lot more than those they lead, they get paid for their knowledge and skill...but they are no better as a person.”
“People dont want to talk about death, just like they dont want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.”
“I followed [Shoji] Hamada, because I guess Alix [MacKenzie] and I, we both saw the danger that lay in planning things out on paper and then simply executing them. And with Hamada there was a much more direct sense that the piece had happened in the process of making on the wheel, and that was what we wanted to do with our work. We weren't always able to do it, though.”
“We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.”
“It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.”

Source : "Why I'm rowing across the Pacific". TED Talk, www.ted.com. April, 2010.

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