"How do we slow down what matters the most and speed up what benefits change and progress? We don't want to impede progress, but we are seeking reconnection to ourselves, to each other, and with the world."

-- John Maeda

#What Matters Quotes #Cities Quotes #Progress Quotes

“Patience is a virtue, and Americans have it in short supply,”
“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”
“I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.”
“I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.”
“Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument.”

Source : Wilfred Funk (1974). “Words of Power”
“There is no human law or law of God or national law that states that any healthy being has to permit the snake to eat the mouse - but on the other hand, it is perfectly justified to defend the mouse.”

Source : Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 06, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, p. 151, 2004.
“I must live in my own excrement, breathe in my own poisonous sticky fumes. Yet I am a human being! I still am. Does no one think of that?”
“I'm glad . . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That Lindbergh kept flying.”

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