"They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king."

-- Bob Dylan

#Life Quotes #Kings Quotes #Jail Quotes

“Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.”

Source : Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin (2010). “The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems”, p.146, Harvard Business Press
“It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.”
“I'm basically a pretty shy person and I don't dance or get into fights. But there are all these things inside me that get out when I perform. It's like a real world when I play, here I can do all the things that I can't do in real life.”
“I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.”
“When you are in high school, you don't give much thought to what you can't do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.”
“Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves.”
“Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated.”

Source : Of modern music. Quoted in M Kennedy Barbirolli, Conductor Laureate (1971).
“Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.”

Source : Shawn Johnson (2012). “Winning Balance: What Ive Learned So Far about Love, Faith, and Living Your Dreams”, p.115, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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