"Instead, we have found ourselves gasping for air in a sea of corruption, dysfunction, environmental degradation, waste, disenchantment and inequalityâ€”and the harder we compete, the more unequal we become."

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Source : Margaret Heffernan (2014). “A Bigger Prize: How We Can Do Better than the Competition”, p.13, PublicAffairs

Margaret Heffernan

#Air Quotes #Sea Quotes #Dysfunction Quotes

“Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.”
“We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication.”
“When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage.”

Source : "How to make stress your friend". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2013.
“I'm not anti-Jew. Jews are respected by everyone, like all human beings, and I respect them very much.”
“CONFIDENCE BOOSTER: Take pride in the things that make you stand out. Realize that you're better served by being authentic to yourself than by seeking out short-term praise from someone else.”
“Hopefully America will forgive me.”

Source : "Roundup At The Rink And On The Bobsled Track". "All Things Considered" with Robert Smith, Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 19, 2014.
“In Elementary Music The Relation Of Earth To The Sphere of Water is 4 to 3, As There Are In The Earth Four Quarters of Frigidity to Three of Water.”
“If we don't hope, if we don't stay positive - at least about love, or finding love - then the rest of life becomes really just painful to think about, because for the most part, you know, day-to-day stuff is monotonous.”

Source : "Q&A: Catfish's Nev Schulman on How Real the Show Is". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. June 25, 2013.

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