"People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?"

-- Ricardo Semler

#Home Quotes #People Quotes #Adults Quotes

“I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.”
“Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.”
“Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.”
“And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out of which the divine machinery developed, I return that truth is just the reverse, that the presence of voices which had to be obeyed were the absolute prerequisite to the conscious stage of mind in which it is the self that is responsible and can debate within itself, can order and direct, and that the creation of such a self is the product of culture. In a sense, we have become our own gods.”

Source : "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes, (Book I, Chapter 3, p. 79), 1976.
“I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet.”
“I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.”
“Donald Trump, I would vote for him. Trump would make this country better I feel.”

Source : "Talking With Our Mouths Full: Snooki". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. November 2, 2011.
“It is actually against the law for a citizen to give money to a terrorist.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com

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