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“A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.”
Source : Maaza Mengiste (2011). “Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel”, p.208, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Oh, they've been putting in the long hours ... But is that because they don't have the skills, and everything takes twice as long? Or do they put in these hours to avoid what they should be doing ... which is stopping and binning a lot of [their work]?”
Source : "The fashion stars of Central Saint Martins". Interview with Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2010.
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“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans”
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“I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.”
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“We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.”
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“I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top.”
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“Fear was the knowledge of pain, the awareness that you could be hurt, that you could die.”
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“The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.”