"Kids need to think that you care before they care what you think."

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Source : Wes Moore (2015). “The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters”, p.76, Spiegel & Grau

Wes Moore

#Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I think Welfare Reform did more harm than good, but one piece of good it did was it changed the attitudes of Americans. If we look at voter surveys even before the recession, the idea that people are poor because they're lazy was much stronger in the early '90s than it was even before the recession. Now with the recession, everybody knows somebody who is poor through no fault of their own. So voter attitudes are more favorable than they've been since the '60s.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right.”
“There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.”
“I don't care about proving things to people. I'm proving things to myself.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“Magic is a faculty of wonderful virtue, full of most high mysteries, containing the most profound contemplation of most secret things, together with the nature, power, quality, substance and virtues thereof, as also the knowledge of whole Nature, and it doth instruct us concerning the differing and agreement of things amongst themselves, whence it produceth its wonderful effects, by uniting the virtues of things through the application of them one to the other.”
“How can you eat anything with eyes?”
“The revolution which began with the creation of quantum theory and relativity theory can only be finished with their unification into a single theory that can give us a single, comprehensive picture of nature.”

Source : Lee Smolin (1999). “The Life of the Cosmos”, p.5, Oxford University Press, USA
“Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.”

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