"Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood."

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Source : Walter Brueggemann (2010). “Journey to the Common Good”, p.35, Westminster John Knox Press

Walter Brueggemann

#Scarcity Quotes #Anxious Quotes #Neighborhood Quotes

“Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?”
“Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer.”
“This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.”

Source : Joanna Baillie (1836). “The separation: a tragedy”, p.173
“If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.”
“I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.”
“Establish a place of work where engineers can feel the joy of technological innovation, be aware of their mission to society and work to their heart's content.”

Source : "Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning". Book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (p. 57), 2004.
“From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless.”
“An individual understands a concept, skill, theory, or domain of knowledge to the extent that he or she can apply it appropriately in a new situation.”

Source : Howard Gardner (1999). “The Disciplined Mind: What All Students Should Understand”

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