"On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked, unbidden. I simply rest, rest within myself, rest within the pure rhythm of my running. And I wait."

-- George A. Sheehan

#Running Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“The truth is the President of the United States used the same device that Slobodan Milosevic used in Serbia. When you appeal to homophobia, when you appeal to sexism, when you appeal to racism, that is extraordinarily damaging to the country.”
“Companies need connections to their markets to create long-term loyalty.”

Source : Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff (2011). “Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies”, p.278, Harvard Business Press
“Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.”
“A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.”
“I'm not scared of getting hurt. I'm not scared of, pretty much, anything. If you live your life scared, what's the fun in living it? If you were scared of getting hit by a car, would you still cross the street?”
“Making movies has not only been an incredibly collaborative process but there's three big parts: pre-production, shooting itself and then post-production, which leads into marketing. And if you're passionate about the movie and you believe in it, and it would make sense that you are having done it, then you want to get out and promote it. It makes it a lot easier when the film is good and people are enjoying it.”
“He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”

Source : Patrick Süskind (2015). “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”, p.170, Penguin UK
“War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business. And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press”

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