"As I think about anyone or anything -- whether history or literature or my father or political organizations or a poem or a film -- as I seek to evaluate the potentiality, the life-supportive commitment and possibilities of anyone or any thing, the decisive question is always where is the love?"

-- June Jordan

#Father Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Nature's great book is written in mathematics.”
“I love what I do and I'm super confident in it, but I also think of myself as humble in it. It's not better than what anyone else is doing, but I'm doing the best job of being exactly who I am, and doing what I want to do today. It feels so good to me that it doesn't really matter what it means to other people because that's more about them than me. I'm in a really great place with it.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.”

Source : "Gene Sharp: A dictator's worst nightmare". Interview with Mairi Mackay, www.cnn.com. June 25, 2012.
“The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.”
“When I started doing television, I thought that I would change the way that I shot, the way that I blocked, and the technical side of it. You're not going to change your relationship with the actors or how you approach the characters. That wasn't any different.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing.”
“Sometimes, when you're this adventurous, you rip the crotch out of your pants.”
“We almost don't want to play bigger shows than where we are now. It's kind of perfect.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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