"In the soil of the quick fix is the seed of a new problem, because our quiet wisdom is unavailable."

-- Wayne Muller

#Soil Quotes #Quiet Quotes #Problem Quotes

“My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as wee one.”

Source : "Natascha McElhone: my family values" by Victoria Lambert, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.
“The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?”
“Killing is an excellent way of dealing with a hostility problem.”
“The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.”
“If Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry.”
“The good painter is the one who buries a color every day.”
“Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements-an d a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.”

Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.291, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.”

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