"Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do."

-- Anthony Bourdain

#People Quotes #Innovation Quotes #Excellence Quotes

“I feel like I’m living in a prison. There are so many things I may not experience. I cannot go swimming, can’t visit relatives, can’t get a job, can’t have a boyfriend. I see so much of life I cannot have. I am living in a veritable prison.”
“I do miss George Bush. Compared to these teabaggers and the people who are pandering to them, he looks like a professor.”
“Yes, my dolls were the beginning. Obviously there was a convulsive flavor to them because they reflected my anxiety and unhappiness. To an extent they represented an attempt to reject the horrors of adult life as it was in favor of a return to the wonder of childhood, but the eroticism was all-important, they became an erotic liberation for me.”
“You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.”
“Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for.”
“... universal adoption of the institutions of the free society would better enable adaptation to climate both now and in the future. It would also ensure that, if at some point in the future, a real catastrophe, whether human-induced or otherwise (including climate change), does loom on the horizon, humanity would be in a better position to address it.”
“Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and success. They are socialized to obey. They obsess over grades and seek to please professors, even if what professors teach is fatuous. The point is to get ahead, and getting ahead means deference to authority. Challenging authority is never a career advancer.”
“Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta; they go too low.”

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