"You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to end as you planned."

-- Loren Eiseley

#Philosophy Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Games Quotes

“I refuse to accept anything less than 100% of what I can achieve.”
“Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our pastors and masters run our society, however much they pull to pieces that which they claim to be keeping intact, nature remains fecund, human beings are born with human traits, sometimes human strength outweighs human weakness, and human grace shows itself amid human ugliness. â€˜In the bloodiest times,â€™ as our play has it, â€˜there are kind people.â€™”

Source : Eric Bentley (2008). “Bentley on Brecht”, p.200, Northwestern University Press
“Whenever you interact with people,don't be there primarily as a function or a role,But as a Field of conscious Presence”
“Choose to view life through God's eyes.”
“The great regret of my life is that I didn't have children.”
“Yet what is more awesome: to believe that God created everything in six days, or to believe that the biosphere came into being on its own, with no creator, and partially lawlessly? I find the latter proposition so stunning, so worthy of awe and respect, that I am happy to accept this natural creativity in the universe as a reinvention of 'God.'”
“Thomas Stanley has not only found no correlation between success in school and an ability to accumulate wealth, he's actually found a negative correlation. 'It seems that school-related evaluations are poor predictors of economic success,' Stanley concluded. What did predict success was a willingness to take risks. Yet the success-failure standards of most schools penalized risk takers. Most educational systems reward those who play it safe. As a result, those who do well in school find it hard to take risks later on.”
“My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.”

Source : Interview with Paul Fischer, "Dark Horizons", December 2, 2003.

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