"The ability to know oneâ€™s limitations, to recognize the bounds of oneâ€™s own comprehensionâ€”this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom."

-- Leah Hager Cohen

#Knowing Quotes #Kind Quotes #Ability Quotes

“For me, DJ culture - with its obsession with collecting records and archiving everything - predated the "cloud" concept with primitive material like the mixtape. Now we would call it "collaborative filtering" or something technical, but the impulse is the same - gather fragments, make something new. That is how you will bypass the climate-change skeptics: render them totally obsolete.”

Source : "DJ Spooky’s Icy Philharmonic". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2011.
“The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy.”
“I argue that I don't think it's a moral position to say that civilization is going to collapse, and that's okay. Because that would cause the deaths of billions of people. It's certainly not something I'm willing to accept.”
“When you're climbing with someone who always sees the bright spot, even if there is no bright spot, that attitude is really helpful.”
“Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.”
“Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.”
“The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.”
“I am decidedly unfriendly during a golf game, from the first hole to the last.”

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