"Disaster mitigation... increases the self reliance of people who are at risk - in other words, it is empowering."

-- Ian Davis

#Self Quotes #People Quotes #Empowering Quotes

“Basically it's the idea of celebrities being in the spotlight and just because you think that they should be perfect, that they're still human and they still have flaws just like everyone else. So that was the real meaning behind "Dollhouse", at least how it related to me because it's something I was annoyed with at the time.”
“I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take it.”

Source : Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Weâ€™re only here for a short while. And I think itâ€™s such a lucky accident, having been born, that weâ€™re almost obliged to pay attention.”
“Don't give up your power to change things. Negativity and unhappiness are caused by you. You can change your attitude.”
“Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.”
“More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.”
“If you have a business website, make it stickier; redo the merchandising often and try new things until you hit the right homepage... then try and beat that. The most important audience drivers on the Internet are paid search and key word optimization. Concentrate on those. They are very inexpensive compared to banner advertising.”

Source : "How Your Business Can Survive the Economic Collapse" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2008.
“Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make a fuss over it? Our self-removal from this planet would still be a magnificent move, a feat so luminous it would bedim the sun. What do we have to lose? No evil would attend our departure from this world, and the many evils we have known would go extinct along with us. So why put off what would be the most laudable masterstroke of our existence, and the only one?”

Source : "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror". Book by Thomas Ligotti, 2010.

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