"How much truth can we bear? Our tolerance for carrying the truth is not very high. I mean, the slightest discomfort about truth and we run to our refuge of our jobs and our schools and our friends who keep supporting our blindness."

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Source : Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#Running Quotes #Jobs Quotes #School Quotes

“I have so much to learn when it comes to running. I just don't ever want it to feel like a chore. When I choose to sign up for a race or go out for a run, it's to make myself feel good, and I almost always do.”
“I had many mentors, and they didn't know it.”
“To me parenting is all about trust. If you don't live by your words or actions how do you expect your kids to listen to you?”
“We don't pay judges to think; we pay judges to rule on the law.”
“Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?”
“The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.”

Source : Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.111, Crown Business
“I don't know whether Jews can behave like good Christians, but Muslim Arabs certainly cannot.”
“Imagine that we are sitting in an ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. In an instant the room we are sitting in is completely altered; everything in it has taken on another look; the light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are as we conceive them. That is the effect I want to get in my film.”

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