"There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated certain people poorly at times. It was because of who I was. It was almost my strength. I came in all business. I tried to find ways to fit in with that demeanor, but it's not easy."

-- Kirk Gibson

#People Quotes #Perception Quotes #Way Quotes

“Here are white men poised to run big ***** businesses, dreaming of cashing in bigâ€”big money, big businesses selling weedâ€”after 40 years of impoverished black kids getting prison time for selling weed, and their families and futures destroyed. Now, white men are planning to get rich doing precisely the same thing?”
“Virtually every discipline and endeavor is presently under a naturalistic pall.”
“A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of what's going. What history misses, the myth clearly expresses. The myth in the hands of a genius give us a clear picture of the inner import of life itself.”

Source : Tom Harpur (2005). “The Pagan Christ: Is Blind Faith Killing Christianity?”, p.17, Allen & Unwin
“A train will bring you back to the place you came from, but it will not return you home.”

Source : Jedediah Berry (2009). “The Manual of Detection: A Novel”, p.213, Penguin
“But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.”
“We didn't evolve through billions of years to remain animals.”
“If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.”

Source : Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.95, Penguin UK
“Somebody doing something effortlessly is a lovely thing to watch.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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