"Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime."

#Fear Quotes #Evil Quotes #Despair Quotes

“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.”
“Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.”
“If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with arrogance that, though they might not burst, they would present the spectacle of unbridled folly-nay, they would go mad. And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight.”
“One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly; they will be passengers on machines whose conductors are carefully promoted to a familiarity with labelled buttons, and in whose minds knowledge of the sky and the wind and the way of weather will be extraneous as passing fiction.”
“I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.”
“Womanâ€™s bodies continue to be dismembered in advertising. Over and over again just one part of the body is used to sell products, which is one of the most dehumanizing thing you can do to someone. Not only is she a thing, but just one part of that thing is focused on.”
“He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.”
“The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.”

Source : "Bogut downplays injury concerns, relishes fresh start with Warriors". Interview with Sam Amick, www.si.com. March 28, 2012.

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