"Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits."

-- Bertrand Piccard

#Habit Quotes #Reacting Quotes #Interest Quotes

“The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.”
“My father said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests.”
“Sometimes all you can do is say, 'Wow.'”
“Christ is risen from the dead!”
“Music is a reservoir... of sounds.”
“Every act we perform today must reflect the kind of relationships we are fighting to establish tomorrow.”

Source : David Dellinger (2010). “From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter”, p.142, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.”

Source : David J. Schwartz (1987). “The Magic of Getting What You Want”, Berkley Publishing Group
“Well, if there is a spectrum between ethnic and civic forms of nationalism, which is a rather schematic way of looking at it, all nationalism contains elements of both, but Scotland is very far on the civic end of the spectrum. That is partly because nobody has ever been stupid enough to say that Scotland is an ethnicity in a genetic sense. A kingdom of Scotland existed long before anybody talked of a Scottish people. So that is one thing we have been spared.”

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