"If I was getting harder, it was in response to the world around me."

-- Charlaine Harris

#World Quotes #Harder Quotes #Response Quotes

“Live Aid turned our world upside down.”
“Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. They pay more attention to that than to what the other person is saying, and none at all to what really matters: the Being of the other person underneath the words and the mind. Of course, you cannot feel someone else's Being except through your own. This is the beginning of the realization of oneness, which is love. At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is.”
“Certain struggles never end.”
“The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they intend to alter it, what they expect to gain in return, where they will raise the capital to accomplish their vision. Many of their stories turn out to be flawed or mistaken, of course, but the capacity to envision a set of future events and then act to fulfill them is a central source of capitalism's strength and its dominance of society.”

Source : William Greider (2003). “The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy”, p.311, Simon and Schuster
“Everything begins in Paris.”

Source : Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”
“Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.”

Source : "Under age gun: when less time can mean better problem-solving" by Adam Savage, www.wired.com. February 11, 2013.
“The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources from the hungry. A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and leaves others hungry.”
“I need to reach a lot of people to sell records.”

You may also like:

Alan Ball
Writer
Anna Paquin
Actress
Jim Butcher
Author
Kelley Armstrong
Writer
Laurell K. Hamilton
Writer
Rachel Caine
Writer
Richelle Mead
Author
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Writer
Stephen Moyer
Film actor