"Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better order, our public infrastructure in better repair, and our people better educated and healthier. To indulge in immediate gratification and exploitation is an insult to previous generations, who sacrificed for us, and thievery from the next generation, who depend on our virtue."

-- Eric Liu

#Commitment Quotes #Order Quotes #People Quotes

“Even the most productive writers are expert dawdlers.”
“What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?”
“You've got to have a likeability factor, I think, in your comedy characters. If the guy's really, really funny but you just don't like him or her, then you're never going to root for them.”
“Barack Obama is like the old joke about boats. The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.”
“My task is how I can learn to make money from that by giving first. I'm always constantly looking at how I can do more and more for less and less.”
“Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.”

Source : Idries Shah (2015). “Reflections”, p.54, ISF Publishing
“Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.”
“Hellenic science is a victory of rationalism, which appears greater, not smaller, when one is made to realize that it had been won in spite of the irrational beliefs of the Greek people; all in all, it was a triumph of reason in the face of unreason. Some knowledge of Greek superstitions is needed not only for a proper appreciation of that triumph but also for the justification of occasional failures, such as the many Platonic aberrations.”

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