"The most positive action we can take about the past is to change our perception of it."

-- Deepak Chopra

#Past Quotes #Perception Quotes #Action Quotes

“For however much the state may gain by not having to fund roads on its own, society would lose in aggregate if the open commons of transportation were lost.”
“No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You donâ€™t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone a priest or even a shaman to interpret it. What you need is courageâ€”courage to drink the brew, eat the mushroom, or whatever it is, and then to pay attention, and make of it what you will. Suddenly, the tools for direct contact with the transcendent other (whether you call it God or something else) is taken from the hands of an anointed elite and given to the individual seeker.”
“When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule chairs; in this manner they suffered death without resistance or supplication. Such conduct was in them applauded as noble and magnanimous; in the hapless Indians it was reviled as both obstinate and sullen. How truly are we the dupes of show and circumstances! How different is virtue, clothed in purple and enthroned in state, from virtue, naked and destitute, and perishing obscurely in a wilderness.”
“I don't think we really measured the enormity of the whole occasion. I'm very, very surprised. We never expected it. When I set out in May we didn't realise how big this was. Only now have we realised the importance of this. [on the 2005 Ashes win”
“We never left a set until we'd trashed it.”
“With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely, human error can be more quickly corrected by computers. What it amounts to is that nothing serious can happen unless human error and computer error take place simultaneously. And that hardly ever happens.”
“The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.”
“You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.”

Source : "'Happy Endings' Elisha Cuthbert, Zachary Knighton interview". Interview with Morgan Jeffery, www.digitalspy.com. September 7, 2011.

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