"The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling that I am the center of everything"

-- Wojciech Kurtyka

#Climbing Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Ego Quotes

“You can't TV surf without coming across an Andy of Mayberry episode where you've just got to watch Don as Barney. That's why I put Don in several of my movies.”

Source : Interview with Claudia Perry, www.aislesay.com.
“For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.”
“In many ways, I think I'm a good person for it. I mean, I'm not a musical theater dude. Or rather, I don't watch everything, and love everything, and have every album. The ones that I love - like I've seen The Wizard of Oz a hundred times. West Side Story I love. I love Singing in the Rain, I love White Christmas. I love the Dennis Potter ones like Singing Detective and Pennies from Heaven. I love Sondheim.”
“Progress in manufacturing is measured by the production of high quality goods. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning-a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty.”
“Only few know what righteousness is. It is righteous to suffer for your own foolishness. When you sin, it is righteous to bear the consequences of your sin without complaining. Saying what you mean and what is on your heart when you deal with other people, that is righteous. One who hungers and thirsts for righteousness will be filled-and being filled with righteousness is something very great.”
“I always ask myself, "Did I get one percent better today?"”
“In my opinion, patriotism is liberty.”

Source : Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's remarks during a discussion on Catalan and Spanish nationalism and the inclusion of the term nation-state in the Statute of Catalonia (translated from Spanish), October 6, 2005.
“Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.”

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