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“Writing is my way of trying to understand vast things that probably I'll never truly understand, a way of exploring a Big Question, of wrestling meaning from the chaos of life. Consequently, when I choose to write overtly or even secretly about my real life, it's always something difficult and complicated that I'm longing to make sense of.”
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“The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.”
Source : Rensis Likert (1967). “The human organization: its management and value”, McGraw Hill
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“A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.”
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“This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.”
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“I will put my Butkus (Award) in storage. I will put my Alamo Bowl MVP trophy in storage. Jerseys, anything Penn State, in storage. Wherever Tom Bradley goes, that's the school I will start to put memorabilia up in my home. I'm done. I'm done with Penn State. If they're done with us, I'm done with them.”
Source : "Bill O’Brien Hire At Penn State Angers LaVar Arrington, Other Former Players Loyal To Tom Bradley" by Michael Klopman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 6, 2012.
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“As a customer service representative; I deal with people all day. Some really are guilty of not paying their bill.”
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“No being incapable of controlling their own mind or developing ethics and a loving character can ever be a Master. First we must have accomplishment.”
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“It may have once been true that computer games encouraged us to interact more with machines than with each other. But if you still think of gamers as loners, then you’re not playing games.”
Source : Jane McGonigal (2011). “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, p.63, Penguin