"As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the spirit of tolerance but also to cherish moral and spiritual qualities such as modesty, humility, compassion, and, most important, to attain a certain degree of emotional equilibrium."

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Source : Thant (U) (1978). “View from the UN”, Doubleday Books

U Thant

#Spiritual Quotes #Buddhist Quotes #Humility Quotes

“I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money.”
“As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own.”
“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”

Source : "Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World". "Communication, and the Public Interest". Book by Martin Greenberger, pp. 40-41, 1971.
“God repeatedly uses the least-likely and least-prepared individuals (ourselves included) to make the deepest impact on our world.”
“Once you know what you want and what is important for you to achieve, also define the values associated with it. What is important? That is something a lot of entrepreneurs pass by too quickly. For us, the things that were important were, No. 1, customer success. Nothing is more important to us than making sure every customer is successful in our service.”

Source : "On the Record: Marc Benioff". San Francisco Chronicle Interview, www.sfgate.com. October 8, 2006.
“Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.”
“I knew they would kill me when they found out, butâ€¦â€ He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. â€œI think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.”
“We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.”

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