"Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war."

-- John Bolton

#War Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.”

Source : John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules for Baby (Updated and Expanded): How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five”, p.49, Pear Press
“We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface content. Then we can begin to experiment with changing the filter through which we look at the world, start to edit the story and thus regain flexibility where we have been getting stuck”
“Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos.”

Source : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.
“I've been using easy-to-understand DC Comics-surrogates to describe him: imagine if Darkseid's son, Orion, joined the Green Lantern Corps to train them to stop Darkseid. That's essentially what Victory is doing in the Galactic Rangers.”
“we dance even if there's no radio. we drink at funerals. we talk too much & laugh too loud & live too large, and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.”
“I surf because it keeps my life at an even keel, without it I would tip into the oblivion.”
“I hate to spread rumours, but what else can one do with them?”
“You are what your record says you are.”

Source : Bill Parcells, Nunyo Demasio (2014). “Parcells: A Football Life”, p.454, Crown Archetype

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