"To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false."

-- John Philip Sousa

#Mean Quotes #Average Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.”

Source : Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin (2010). “The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems”, p.162, Harvard Business Press
“Belonging to the Catholic Church gives your support to an organization that conceals and protects child rapists. Again, not as a few isolated incidents, but as a massive, institution-wide culture, a matter of policy even, that extends throughout the organization and reaches all the way to the top. Belonging to the Catholic Church - giving them money, letting them count you in their rolls, sending your children to their schools - gives this behavior your personal thumbs-up, and actively enables it to continue.”

Source : "Why Is Anyone Still Catholic?". Article by Greta Christina, www.alternet.org. May 14, 2010.
“How are you going to do great things if you are not committed to your work.”
“Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.”
“In a situation of potential conflict, let compassion guide you.”

Source : Sharon Salzberg (2013). “Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace”, p.139, Workman Publishing
“This is what I think. You canâ€™t have everything at once. Like the pockets in your clothes, thereâ€™s a limit to how much we can have at once. There are times when to put something in your pocket, you have to throw something else away. You have to prioritize those decisions by yourself. There are things that you canâ€™t get back once youâ€™ve thrown them away.”
“A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing.”
“Every studio needs a rubber chicken.”

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