"What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go of one's own interest on behalf of others, being ready if necessary to sacrifice one's own interests for them, even on behalf of an enemy."

-- George F. R. Ellis

#Letting Go Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn't, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.”
“There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.”
“There is nothing more inspiring than having a mind unfold before you. Let people teach who have a calling. It is never just a job.”
“If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.99, iUniverse
“The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.”
“I would love to hear all types of Christian artists played all over the world. I'd love to hear good, positive mainstream music played all over the place. I'd love to be able to bring music together. But I have not deserted Christ. I have not deserted my faith.”
“Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank needs to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path. The decision makers then need to reach judgment about the probabilities, costs and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.”
“there are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are ...”

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