Quotes
Authors
Tim Wise

"Stuff Happens.â€™ Thatâ€™s the G-rated version. Thatâ€™s a bumper sticker that only a straight white upper middle class male could have made. Because anyone who isnâ€™t straight, anyone who isnâ€™t male, anyone who isnâ€™t white, anyone who isnâ€™t upper middle class knows that stuff doesnâ€™t just happen. Stuff gets done by people to people. Nothing is a coincidence. Nothing is random. This isnâ€™t osmosis. And so we act as if itâ€™s this passive thing, but yet thatâ€™s not the case."

-- Tim Wise

#Osmosis Quotes #Class Quotes #White Quotes

“I hate the standard of stupid and selfish driving we have in this country. We are the worst I've come across.”
“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”
“I've got a great family and great people around me that would be able to kick me in the shins if I ever for one minute got lost up in the clouds. I've been really lucky in that sense.”
“You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 30, 2014
“Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a controllable and dialectical simulation of the moderately unmastered arousals and regulations of everyday life, in a way that is alternatively vivifying and euphoric.”
“Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.”

Source : "Memory's Future". Interview with William Calvin, www.psychologytoday.com. March 1, 2001.
“This is the most important lesson you must learn about magic," Miss Ochiba went on. "There are many ways of seeing. Each has an element of truth, but none is the whole truth. If you limit yourselves to one way of seeing, one truth, you will limit your power. You will also place limits on the kinds of spells you can cast, as well as their strength. To be a good magician, you must see in many ways. You must be flexible. You must be willing to learn from different sources. And you must always remember that the truths you see are incomplete.”
“If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier.”

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