"Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred."

-- Pico Iyer

#Tragedy Quotes #Comedy Quotes

“Artists can help re-imagine a conflict and start a dialogue.”
“A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.”

Source : Alfred Binet (1977). “Significant contributions to the history of psychology: 1750-1920”
“The most amazing thing about young men is how invisible they were to you when you were young. It is also the most poignant.”
“I think my father was sick of being on the sidelines watching a bunch of incompetents in his mind. And in our world, in our business world, these people wouldn't last five minutes in real companies, and he's sick of them making decisions that are costing our children, their children behind them, trillions of dollars and really giving up the great power that we've built up over the last 200 years.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.”
“A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality, and one of the great ideas of our time is pluralism. Can people from different backgrounds live together in mutual peace and loyalty? And what we need is a generation of young social entrepreneurs who know how to make that great idea reality in an historical moment where religious extremists are, frankly, making their idea reality.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“If you asked people, "Do you like jazz?" they would be like, "not at all." But I think that if you're really putting yourself out there and really communicating, music can put you beyond people's preconceptions, beyond their playlist.”

Source : "A New Standard: Kamasi Washington's Modern Jazz Revolution". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. June 9, 2015.
“Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.”

Source : Sir Arthur Helps (1852). “Organization in Daily Life: An Essay”, p.33, [s.n.]

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