"You can't build a chimney from the top, you know."

-- Marian Anderson

#Work Quotes #Chimneys Quotes

“There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.”
“Confidence is key. Always. Even when we might have messed up.”

Source : Source: sea.askmen.com
“Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune's all we are.”
“Repressive states are developing weapons that could cause destruction on a massive scale.”
“My home is such a powerfully imaginative place that the space is almost irrelevant. I think the house I live at on the Hudson is where I belong because it's the only place where I am that I never think about when I'm leaving.”
“A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that.”
“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.”

Source : Stewart L. Udall (1968). “1976: Agenda for Tomorrow”
“We really want to send the message that commanders need to understand and be accountable. We saw that with the Catholic Church. No one cared when they went after the priests, but when they focused on the bishops then things began to change. And we see that analogy working with the military.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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