"All art is based on non-conformity."

-- Ben Shahn

#Art Quotes #Conformity Quotes #Art Is Quotes

“For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one.”
“You cannot have a learning organisation without a shared vision...A shared vision provides a compass to keep learning on course when stress develops.”
“When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself. We don't have to worry about what to do. We don't have to figure out solutions ahead of time. Peacemaking is the functioning of bearing witness. Once we listen with our entire body and mind, loving action arises.”

Source : Bernie Glassman (2013). “Bearing Witness: A Zen Master's Lessons in Making Peace”, p.62, Penguin
“Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.”
“â€¦there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creatureâ€¦And yet she had loved him- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being.”
“Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit alone on the concert stage and merely 'think' his idealized conception of his music. Instead of recordings of actual music sound, recordings will carry the brainwaves of the composer directly to the mind of the listener.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Some 3 million years ago, when the earth was a little more than 3Â°C warmer than preindustrial levels (about 2.2Â°C warmer than today), Antarctica had far less ice and sea levels were a stunning 25 meters higher than today. If we stay on our current emissions path, the planet will almost certainly be that warm by the century's end.”
“We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.”

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