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“I say an hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour out of the entire system. I say an hour saved at a non-bottleneck is worthless. Bottlenecks govern both throughput and inventory.”
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“A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as 'Christian art.' That's why most Christian art is bad. They don't put a premium on the 'art.”
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“I'm not really excited about the idea of committing to anything permanently.”
Source : "Catching Up With the Shins’ James Mercer". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. March 12, 2012.
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“Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.”
Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Literature and Life”, p.38
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“Audiences can be very judgmental.”
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“A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world.”
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“Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.”
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“The best kind of travel – the kind I wanted to experience – involves a particular state of mind, in which one is not merely open to the occurrence of the unexpected, but to deep involvement in the unexpected, indeed, open to the possibility of having one’s life changed forever by a chance encounter.”
Source : Elisabeth Eaves (2011). “Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com