"Documentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill."

-- Jim Highsmith

#Skills Quotes #Discipline Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“In terms of having to uphold something, I don't need any added pressure. I need to be free in the work.”

Source : "Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2012.
“I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.”
“I donâ€™t stand a chance if he doesn't get better. Youâ€™ll never be able to let him go. Youâ€™ll always feel wrong about being with me.â€ â€œThe way I always felt wrong kissing him because of you,â€ I say. Gale holds my gaze. â€œIf I thought that was true, I could almost live with the rest of it.”
“Tea-making is a ritual that, like the drink itself, warms the heart somehow.”
“Ive had the most wonderful life.”
“I'm thankful to have Jesus as my Savior. My relationship with God has always been one to where I'm talking to him all day, every day, about anything and everything. It's just a continuous ongoing conversation that I have with the Lord, and I feel like that's brought me closer to Him.”
“[...] Tess and I are a good match. She understands intimately where I came from. She can cheer me up on my darkest days. It's as if she came perfectly happy home instead of what Kaede just told me. I feel a relaxing warmth at the thought, realizing suddenly how much I'm anticipating meeting up with Tess again. Where she goes, I go, and vice versa. Peas in a pod. Then there's June. Even the thought of her name makes it hard for me to breathe. I'm almost embarrassed by my reaction. Are June and I a good match? No. It's the first word to pop into my mind. And yet, still.”
“In all my years of New York cab riding I have yet to find the colorful, philosophical cabdriver that keeps popping up on the late movies.”

Source : Jean Shepherd (2010). “The Ferrari in the Bedroom”, p.78, Broadway Books

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