"We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics"

-- Tony Juniper

#Sight Quotes #Environment Quotes #Economics Quotes

“We are continuously challenged to discover new works of cultureâ€”and, in the process, we donâ€™t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.”
“Persuasion is not a science but an art”
“The wind picks up. It sends leaves scurrying for cover until a softer breeze blows through, settling them down again as if to say, Shhh, there, there, it's all right. One leaf still dances in the air. It spins higher and higher, defying gravity and logic, stretching for something just out of reach. It shall have to fall, of course. Eventually. But for now, I hold my breath, willing it to keep going, taking comfort in its struggle.”
“The race car is harder to drive. If there was an in-car camera that could have watched me saw on that wheel for 500 laps, there wasn't one time I could relax.”
“I promised each and every Hulkamaniac when I went to that great battlefield in the sky I would bring the WWF title with me.”
“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”

Source : "'Was heisst Denken?' ('What is Called Thinking?')". Book by Martin Heidegger, translated by Fred D. Wieck and J. Glenn Gray, 1968.
“This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance halls, and city parks, and about how his own Paps, how he had beat him, how he taught him to dance, as if we could hear Spanish in his movements, as if Puerto Rico was a man in a bathrobe, grabbing another beer from the fridge and raising it to drink, his head back, still dancing, still steeping and snapping perfectly in time.”
“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.”

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