"People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, Its so big, I cant make a difference. I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference."

-- Miles D. White

#Thinking Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Differences Quotes

“The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.”
“I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe.”
“I am dying with the help of too many physicians.”
“I think writing letters is a lost art, but nowadays it's something that means even more, because it's so easy to communicate in so many different ways. But I find a love letter can even be a little post-it note stuck in your pocket, with a sentence or a few words.”
“You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.”
“Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.”

Source : Yanis Varoufakis (2015). “The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy”, p.43, Zed Books Ltd.
“Id like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.”
“I teach a graduate seminar called "Theorizing Improvisation" that is pretty interdisciplinary, but really makes students deal with black studies seriously. A lot of authors of color, a lot of women of color - those become central to the intellectual trajectory. It considers music, but it also considers areas of thought that might seem unrelated to music. That's partly because we're expanding the notion of what music is beyond objects, beyond scores, beyond things.”

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