"I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated."

-- John Shirley

#Empathy Quotes #Way Quotes #Opinionated Quotes

“I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.”
“About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting Heureka!, plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures as he was about to be killed, and so on. ... One ends up forgetting he was a scientist of whom we still have many writings.”

Source : "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.
“They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.”

Source : Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters”
“People always thought if no one believed in God and we were nihilists then people would go around murdering each other. That didn't happen at all, we just bought a lot of things with credit.”
“You have to get rid of borders, limits, and classifications; then light comes. We see everything on the screen of our ideas. We must get rid of that screen to be able to see what is behind. X's ideas are limited, that is why he remains on the surface. Y got rid of the limits, so she always goes to the depths. We should always meet people and new subjects with no set frame of mind. We have to live like that even after long acquaintance. We must get rid of every set idea to approach everything and everyone with love.”
“Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.”
“So, you could call me optimistic and hopeful and probably just a little bit naÃ¯ve, but I'm coming from the space that the best way to predict the future is to get out there and just do it yourself”

Source : "John Elkington, the 'Breakthrough Challenge' and tomorrow's bottom line". Interview with Joel Makower, www.greenbiz.com. September 3, 2014.
“I wanna be great. I'm going to be great. There's no doubt about it.”

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