"Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass."

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Source : Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (2011). “Course in General Linguistics”, p.111, Columbia University Press

Ferdinand de Saussure

#Expression Quotes #Mass Quotes

“We have forgotten that those skills on the more positive side of human nature have to be taught, have to be modeled, have to be practiced.”
“When I started my company, many people said I shouldn't launch it as a retail concept because it was too big a risk. They told me to launch as a wholesaler to test the waters - because that was the traditional way.”
“To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud and lonely, a tearing, a howling, a hunger and thirst. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst. A strength that would die fighting, kicking, screaming, that wouldn't stop until the last breath had been wrung from its body. The will to take one's place in the world. To say 'I am here.' To say 'I am.”
“To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.”
“No matter what your native tongue is, no matter what part of the world you're from, if your native tongue is distorted with an accent, somehow that's always funny.”
“Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius?”

Source : "The Voice of the Dolphins: And Other Stories". Book by Leo Szilard, 1961.
“Jesus was a pacifist.”
“Some leaders want to jump right to planning and fixing their issues, without understanding exactly what the problems are. Others want to skip the training phase since it means pulling people out of their jobs. The point is, each phase is important to enhancing culture and driving real change.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

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