"Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself."

-- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes #Way Quotes

“It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.”
“Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible.”
“An integral part of any best friend's job is to immediately clear your computer history if you die.”

Source : Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.278, Macmillan
“Bands will always need studios. The more people there are recording at home, the more people there will be who are going to need a studio.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We do the same thing in our own lives, embracing information that supports what we already prefer or vindicates choices we previously made.After all, it feels better to justify our opinions rather than challenge them, to contemplate only the pros and relegate the cons to the back of our minds. However, if we want to make the most of choice, we have to be willing to make ourselves uncomfortable. The question is, if we are willing, how exactly do we go about fortifying ourselves against these biases?”
“A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.”
“Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. By making us drink right from the fountain of life it liberates us from all the yokes under which we finite beings are usually suffering in this world.”
“A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.”

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