"The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny."

-- Blaise Pascal

#Confusion Quotes #Unity Quotes #Tyranny Quotes

“Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?”
“If you discuss the beliefs of Christianity with the village diviner, the medicine man, he will say the white man must be extremely stupid. The white man must be profoundly troubled - probably torn by a huge guilt connected to how he treated the ancestors - to think that villagers would buy the idea that someone died on the cross for us. They would say these beliefs are evidence that the white people killed someone of great importance, probably a diviner and a healer. If you kill a healer, you must make amends by appeasing the healer's spirit.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain.”
“Managers assert drive and control to get things done; leaders pause to discover new ways of being and achieving .”

Source : Kevin Cashman (2012). “The Pause Principle: Step Back to Lead Forward”, p.4, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“Prayer need not be a burdensome duty. It is meant to be a joyful and creative privilege.”

Source : Hannah Hurnard (2012). “Mountains of Spices”, p.251, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.”
“The last two days of shooting ('Harper's Island') was probably the most hardcore, the coldest anyone has ever been. It was like your head was freezing, and my motivation for most scenes was, 'The minute this scene is over, I'm heading straight over to that heater to get warm.'”
“I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.”

Source : AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. August 2011.

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