"I feel like the smartest people in my field are busy reinforcing the old models with new technology."

-- Douglas Rushkoff

#Technology Quotes #People Quotes #Fields Quotes

“You know in cartoons, the way someone can run off a cliff and they're fine, they don't fall down until they look down? My mom always said that was the secret of life. Never look down. But it's more than that. It's not just about looking. It's about never realizing that you're in the middle of the air and you don't know how to fly.”

Source : "Fictional character: Allie Keys". "Taken" (miniseries), 2002.
“Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.”

Source : Alexis de Tocqueville (2006). “Memoir on Pauperism: Does Public Charity Produce an Idle And Dependent Class of Society?”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.
“I'm most inspired by people who are doing what they love in a big, loud way. And big and loud doesn't always have to be big and loud. Sometimes these people can appear as a quiet storm, but in their full expression everyone feels the impact.”
“Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.”
“Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding.”
“Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human faculties. Very different is the Christian ideal. Paganism is optimistic with regard to unaided human nature, whereas Christianity is the religion of the broken heart.”

Source : John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.65, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Things don't matter, people do”

Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.27, The Overlook Press
“First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

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