"Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect."

-- Terry McMillan

#Life Quotes #Architect Quotes

“During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.”
“My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.”
“Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.”
“If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.”
“I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I've just got to remind Missourians that I am independent and that I try to call them like I see them, and sometimes my party is wrong on some things.”

Source : "Interview with Senator Claire McCaskill". RealClearPolitics Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 4, 2010.
“Within our own society, we jail more prisoners than any other country in the world, 85 percent of them people of nonwhite races â€” red, black, brown, and yellow. We are one of the few nations that still indulge in the death penalty for increasing numbers of these prisoners. We must become mindful of these negative things, since we need not support these actions of our nation to be affected negatively by their evolutionary impact, unless we mentally, verbally, and ultimately physically, disassociate ourselves from them.”
“Besides singing "Jump Around" to all the WWE superstars in the locker room? Uh... I enjoy listening to music, pumping up, and getting really muscular and oily. I like to oil myself before.”
“To understand is to perceive patterns.”

Source : Isaiah Berlin (1959). “Historical Inevitability”

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