"Why stay on the earth except to grow."

-- Robert Browning

#Learning Quotes #Earth Quotes #Grows Quotes

“You're so caught up in grumbling, complaining, and seeing what's wrong that you have no energy or time to appreciate what's good.”
“If you don't do your dance, who will?”
“No one loves the man whom he fears.”
“Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.”

Source : Atul Gawande (2010). “Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance”, p.246, Profile Books
“Words are loaded pistols.”
“The BBC is very much in thrall to all this techno cross-fertilisation, in much the same way that print journalists are now encouraged to blog. To the point where there is an emerging breed of sub-editors who take perfectly well-written and punctuated original copy and rewrite it so that it resembles a text message written by a 14-year-old under the influence of Bacardi Breezers.”

Source : "Thank goodness it's a jungle out there" by Kathryn Flett, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.
“Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when taken literally, but reveals some of the deepest truths of humankind when understood mythically, poetically, and even allegorically-that is when it is read with an active and creative imagination.”
“You have to be 100% sure [about brexit] because there's no going back on Friday morning and your decision could cost someone else their job.”

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