"I was always a mad scientist type - an inventor and just a generally inventive person, and that has remained the same. But one thing that has changed is that I've always been aggressively pro-business, with the mentality that whoever pays me, gets me - but now, I'd rather be broke than contribute to destroying the world my son is inheriting - both the social fabric, and obviously the environmental."

-- Sam Lamott

#Son Quotes #Mad Quotes #Environmental Quotes

“In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 569, 1895.
“Know me for my abilities, not my disability.”
“Some people have a gift for making you feel okay, just by the fact of their presence.”
“I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.”
“The kind of commitment I find among the best performers across virtually every field is a single-minded passion for what they do, an unwavering desire for excellence in the way they think and the way they work. Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a spring in your step.”
“Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 14, 2016
“Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted with this squalid betrayal, one imagines he would have felt sick and oppressed.”
“Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky.”

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