"In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism."

-- Elie Wiesel

#Coffee Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Tradition Quotes

“What I'm trying to do is deliver results, not promises; results, not vision; results, not concepts. The world is cynical about IBM's promises.”
“At first, students tend to freeze at the first effort. The breakthrough comes when they realize that they can make it better - can identify what their purposes were and realize better ways to achieve those purposes.”

Source : "An Interview with M. H. Abrams by Sharon Hamilton". People's Education, March 10, 2007.
“A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.”
“I wanted to make noise, not study theory.”
“You are personally responsible for everything in your life, once you become aware that you are personally responsible for everything in your life.”
“When the president offered me this job, he told me that if there were situations in which I needed to speak to him or I needed his advice or I needed to ask him a question, that I could go into the Oval Office and I could ask him.”
“I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.”
“One can make a joke, but one can't be one.”

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