"TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided. There are lessons, enormous lessons, lessons that may be crucial to the planet's persistence as a green and diverse place and also to the happiness of it's inhabitants-that nature teaches and TV can't."

-- Bill McKibben

#Real Quotes #Persistence Quotes #Anchors Quotes

“Not only I would like to work as the youngest technology evangelist at Microsoft, I would like to work on those cutting-edge technologies which would be explored by technology evangelists five years from now.”

Source : Source: arfakarim.wordpress.com
“The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.”

Source : "Earth never looked so good". www.foxnews.com. December 21, 2015.
“What can happen in a few minutes changes you forever.”
“O, when the heart is, full, when bitter thoughts come crowding thickly up for utterance, and the poor common words of courtesy are such a very mockery, how much the bursting heart may pour itself in prayer!”

Source : Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry Llewellyn Williams (1832). “Poems of Nathaniel Parker Willis ...”, p.36
“No one can be free unless he is independent.”
“I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.”
“This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here.”
“I have found, without a doubt, that when I manage to get outside myself and not make myself the center, I'm always taken care of in whatever situation I'm in, even if I'm slow to recognize it. It's counterintuitive thinking on some level and not consistently easy to do.”

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