"Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play."

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Source : "Individualism Reconsidered". Book by David Riesman, p. 333, 1954.

David Riesman

#Meaningful Quotes #Play Quotes #Meaningful Work Quotes

“I love my family, I love my relatives. One special request I have is for the media back in Taiwan to kind of give them their space because they can't even go to work without being bombarded and people following them.”
“Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.”

Source : Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing
“It is hard to ignore that is reality. But, at the same time, it still comes down to sound baseball decisions, farm systems and then execution on the field by the players. There are a lot of components to that (other) than just saying it is the highest salary.”
“To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future.”

Source : John Daishin Buksbazen (2010). “Zen Meditation in Plain English”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.”
“Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.”

Source : "Alex Karras obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.
“Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.”

Source : Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.111, Henry Holt and Company
“My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis, it's not a political issue, it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act, that's a renewable resource, let's renew it.”

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