"Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves."

-- William Least Heat-Moon

#Country Quotes #Exploration Quotes

“Our biggest project is actually more in the social sciences, where we are studying mastery - how people get good at things - only we do it from an individuality perspective.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and how these are received in Japan.”
“In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.”
“I let out a battle cry. Sure, a lot of people might have mistaken it for a sudden yelp of unmanly fear, but trust me. It was a battle cry.”
“Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.”
“I got a Walkman, I had the 'Footloose' soundtrack and I danced to it constantly.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.”
“When I talk to audiences about the size and age of the cosmos, people often say, "It makes me feel so insignificant." I answer, "The bigger and more impersonal the universe is, the more meaningful you are, because this vast, impersonal place needs something significant to fill it up." We've abandoned the old belief that humanity is at the physical center of the universe but more come back to believing we are at the center of meaning.”

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