"I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity."

-- Tilda Swinton

#Kindness Quotes #People Quotes #Stupidity Quotes

“There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you've learned, the closer you are to your outcome... If you can handle rejection, you'll learn to get everything you want.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Jun 13, 2012
“Paternity, paternity. Let's think about this. This discriminates against the childless. So you get a year off because you produce a brat. If anything if you have a child you should work more because your brat's going to annoy me at the restaurants.”
“I want to stay in the habit of 'glancing' at my problems and 'gazing' at my Lord.”
“The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff...”
“No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between the knower and the known, we could know nothing except the wall itself. Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known. That encounter has moments of distance, but it would not be an encounter without moments of intimacy as well. Knowing of any sort is relational, animated by a desire to come into deeper community with what we know.”
“Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.”

Source : James Hogg (1829). “The Shepherd's Calendar”, p.214
“Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.”
“Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious.”

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