"Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God."

-- Samuel Chadwick

#Church Quotes #Laziness Quotes #Cry Quotes

“Bugs Bunny is my muse.”
“I'd like to think of my self as not melancholic at all, I think I'm a pretty cheerful person, really.”

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“And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning done, make sure the buses are there. When that's done, it's completely appropriate to go around and tour around and look at the damage.”
“Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original expectations. More often than not, resistance is cultural in nature but the real cause of lots of resistance often is that however much a team might say that it wants to change, the old assumptions are woven, invisibly, deep within the corporate culture, and from this staging ground they act invisibly to sustain the old order. Finding the assumption out and then rooting them out is a special skill. It calls for assumption hunters, I call them.”

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“My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.”
“Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mathematicians admire elegance and simplicity above all else, and the ultimate goal in solving a problem is to find the method that does the job in the most efficient manner. Though the major accolades are given to the individual who solves a particular problem first, credit (and gratitude) always goes to those who subsequently find a simpler solution.”
“I was minding my own business, really, and then all of a sudden, Hollywood approached me.”
“Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into the truth of a matter is an almost athletic experience; it may exhaust you, but it also improves you.”

Source : Stanley Fish (2012). “Save the World on Your Own Time”, p.35, Oxford University Press

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