"What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives"

-- Tracy Kidder

#Reflection Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“If you repeat yourself, then I think you're in danger of losing that fan base, because if you're not interesting yourselves, you're not interesting your audience.”
“Being Missional means actually doing mission right where you are. Missional means adopting the posture of a missionary, learning and adapting to the culture around you while remaining Biblically sound.”
“I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.”
“Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we're a nation of immigrants and all of that. The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.”
“When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.”
“Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!”

Source : "Art struck", www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2000.
“The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.”
“When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation.”

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