"A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision"

-- Nido R Qubein

#Attitude Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not all these things, you will be allowed to dance in the privacy of your own living room. You just wouldn't dare to put yourself onstage.”
“There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.”

Source : Laurens Van der Post (1979). “Venture to the interior”, Harcourt
“All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.”
“My suspicion is that we're near a near-term low. The reality is the majority of the selling short-term is over with - the market doesn't want to go down.”
“Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep.”
“The universe is so big, there's so many worlds, there must be one of them or more, something that's alive.”
“The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the Orient into Western learning, Western consciousness, and later, Western empire.... The Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined. On this stage will appear the figures whose role it is to represent the larger whole from which they emenate. The Orient then seems to be, not an unlimited extension beyond the familiar European world, but rather a closed field, a theatrical stage affixed to Europe.”

Source : "Orientalism". Book by Edward W. Said, 1978.
“Some parents were nervous about how they would portray everything, ... At a picnic the moms put on for the team and coaches, I said that all the reality shows are turning around and showing good things, not bad things.”

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