"Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?"

-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Life Quotes #Character Quotes #Other Worlds Quotes

“When you wanna rock hard, children, lean on F#.”
“Doctor Mengele is such a powerful character historically, as powerful as Nazism itself, so these subjects always tend to be the protagonists. What I think is that despite this historical references, Wakolda or The German Doctor is a very intimate story.”
“One can say, 'Teach me what you know,' but the better request is, 'Teach me about what teaches you.'”
“The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there.”
“It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.”
“I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.”
“I also did a great amount of writing while doing research. It gave me the opportunity to meet and talk to people other than family, but also to explore my own memory deeper by comparing it to the memories of others who were in my home town during, for example, the political transition from socialism to a nationalistic "democracy" or during the bombings.”
“It's about listening first, then selling.”

Source : Erik Qualman (2010). “Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business”, p.1, John Wiley & Sons

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