"Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing."

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Source : Paul Theroux (1986). “Sunrise with Seamonsters”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Paul Theroux

#Gains Quotes #Reputation Quotes #Modest Quotes

“I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.”
“Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.”
“I had always been an overachiever, so I felt I could just "wing it," reasoning that if I don't set clear, written goals I wouldn't have to account for anything if I failed. Now I'm the opposite! I am always setting goals, and I get very specific about where I'm going and take the time to learn the steps needed to take to get there.”
“Someday I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds Are far behind me Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops that's where you'll find me”

Source : Song: Somewhere over the rainbow
“Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology”
“A disciple is one who thinks, feels and acts like Jesus Christ. It is being conformed to the image of Christ as Romans 8:28-29 states-that God's No.1 purpose in our lives is to make us like Jesus.”
“The other side of my work is political disappointment - the realization that we are living in an unjust world. "Blood is being spilled in the merriest way, as if it was champagne," Dostoevsky says. That raises the problem of justice, what it might mean in an unjust world and whether there can be an ethics and a political practice that would be able to face and face down the injustice of the present. How might we begin to think about that?”

Source : "Demand Everything! An Interview With Philosopher Simon Critchley". Interview with Anders Gullestad, truthout.org. May 15, 2010.
“To have no vision of your own means living the vision of someone else.”

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