"To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly."

-- William James

#Life Quotes #Change Quotes #Philosophical Quotes

“Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.”

Source : Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books
“The task of all Christian scholarshipâ€”not just biblical studiesâ€”is to study reality as a manifestation of Godâ€™s glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it, and to make it serve the good of man. It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his manifold glory known and loved, then to treat any subject without reference to Godâ€™s glory is not scholarship but insurrection.”
“I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.”
“Houllier couldnâ€™t deal with players expressing any anger or questioning any of hisÂ decisions”
“Paint ideas, paint thought.”
“Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.”
“Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when they come from the fields in La Connor, not far from where I live.”
“Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at all cost, that needs the drama in order to assert its identity as the victorious character within that theatrical production? Can you feel there is something in you that would rather be right than at peace?”

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