"I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Giving Up Quotes #Two Quotes #Balance Quotes

“If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.”
“If the practices and processes inside a company don't drive the execution of values, then people don't get it. The question is, do you create a culture of behavior and action that really demonstrates those values and a reward system for those who adhere to them?”
“And there shall be a flame-green daybreak soon. And love itself will cry for insurrection! For tomorrow is also a day - and Titus has entered his stronghold.”
“There is no human law or law of God or national law that states that any healthy being has to permit the snake to eat the mouse - but on the other hand, it is perfectly justified to defend the mouse.”

Source : Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 06, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, p. 151, 2004.
“Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust provoking attire, ridiculous love pranks, all which savor only of sensuality, of raging fleshly lusts. Therefore, it is wholly to be abandoned of all good Christians.”
“What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.”

Source : Jean Dubuffet, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1993). “Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: paintings, sculptures, assemblages : an exhibition”, Smithsonian Inst Pr
“Small changes can produce big results - but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious.”
“People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.”

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