"Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally."

-- John Eliot

#Thinking Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Overachiever Quotes

“We are reviewing our experience to enable us to respond to the cultural challenge: to help countries, communities and individuals interpret universal principles, translate them into culturally sensitive terms and design programmes based on them, programmes that people can really feel are their own.”
“Not all the winds, and storms, and earthquakes, and seas, and seasons of the world, have done so much to revolutionize the earth as Man, the power of an endless life, has done since the day he came forth upon it, and received dominion over it.”
“Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist has ever read into the pages of the Bible.”
“Well, it's like my movie, 'The Apostle.' Some people in the North don't get that movie. They think that, in the South, if you don't shout, you can't play one of those guys.”
“I lead by example. But if I get pissed enough, I'll say something. It usually isn't rah-rah; it's more complaining.”
“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”
“Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.”

Source : Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.114, Open Road Media
“Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.”

Source : Quoted in K C Lindsay and P Vergo (eds and trans) Kandinsky: Complete Writings on Art (1982).

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