#Thoughtful Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Perspective Quotes
“The enemies of Christ ... could not bear his independence; his "Give the emperor that which is the emperor's" showed a contempt for the affairs of state and its politics for the moral order that their self-respect would not let them tolerate.”
“My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.”
“Every day you are bombarded by so many different things. When you sit down to process everything, it can become interesting visually. You can incorporate a lot of those things that you internalize.”
“Everything in life is vibration.”
“People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, “If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it.†They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.”
Source : Heather O'Neill (2016). “Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel”, p.13, HarperCollins
“What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command respect, while the purely scientific, which possess far greater merit are almost unknown. And yet the latter are the proper source from which the others flow. Practice alone can never lead to the discovery of a truth or a principle. In Germany it is quite the contrary. Here in the eyes of scientific men no value, or at least but a trifling one, is placed upon the practical results. The enrichment of science is alone considered worthy attention.”
“I've been thinking a lot about Anacortes and what it's like to be here, though I'm not trying to get people to move here - I would hate that.”
“With any job the main thing that makes the job is the people.”
Breaux Greer
Linford Christie Olympic athlete
Roger Black Olympic athlete
