"Excellence isnâ€™t about working extra hard to do what youâ€™re told. Itâ€™s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing."

-- Seth Godin

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“When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.”
“What is most disturbing today is that we use rational methods to cultivate the tastes and values of the young in all kinds of educational, religious, and cultural institutions that are predicated on corporate practices and goals. Everything we do to, with, and for our children is influenced by capitalist market conditions and the hegemonic interests of ruling corporate elites. In simple terms, we calculate what is best for our children by regarding them as investments and turning them into commodities.”
“I try to not overthink anything. I don't understand why nipples are nudity. Who cares? Men can show their nipples but if we have breasts we can't show them?”
“Opera on television in Europe is very important. If you think about it in the broadest sense: a lot of the dramas made in India with music are practically operas. They're not sung but they have a very big appeal. I don't know why American television people are so stupid but at the moment, they just seem to have some sort of a block. They just do what they do and they do it for a certain number of years. Then it wears out and they try something else. It's just a matter of time I think.”
“The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. Its a nice problem to have.”
“A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening,”

Source : "The Great Animal Orchestra". Book by Bernie Krause, March 19, 2012.
“Maybe I'll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.”
“For who will testify, who will accurately describe our lives if we do not do it ourselves?”

Source : Faye Moskowitz (2011). “And the Bridge Is Love”, p.32, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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