"There is so much more information about the scientific world than there was a generation ago that we have all increased our opportunities for ignorance. There are more things not to know. ... The machinery that we deal with is so much more complex that it is possible to become dysfunctional at a much higher level of performance."

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Source : Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

Ellen Goodman

#Ignorance Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Progress Quotes

“By remaining exactly the same today as you were yesterday, you are guaranteeing that tomorrow will be no better than today.”

Source : Rabbi Daniel Lapin (2009). “Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money”, p.105, John Wiley & Sons
“Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.”
“So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.”
“All this world is but a play... be thou the joyful player.”
“Nothing is never nothing. It's always something.”
“Taqwaa is not by praying all night and fasting all day but rather it is abiding by the commands of Allah and staying away from His prohibitions.”
“My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.”
“Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.”

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