"When placed in the same system, people, however different, tend to produce similar results."

-- Peter Senge

#People Quotes #Different Quotes #Results Quotes

“I can't stand when people say, Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. OK, how about I hate you because you said that”
“I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.”
“We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just from the distance of the Moon you can put your thumb up and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything that you've ever known, your loved ones, your business, the problems of the Earth itself-all behind your thumb. And how insignificant we really all are, but then how fortunate we are to have this body and to be able to enjoy loving here amongst the beauty of the Earth itself.”

Source : "In the Shadow of the Moon". Documentary, History, www.imdb.com. 2007.
“A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade gradually from the mind, leaving no enduring impression; but words which flow fresh and warm from a full heart, and which are instinct with the life and breath of human feeling, pass into household memories, and partake of the immortality of the affections from which they spring.”
“There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.”
“My good now flows to me in a steady, unbroken, ever-increasing stream of success, happiness and abundance.”

Source : Florence Scovel Shinn (2013). “Your Word is Your Wand: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.10, Lulu Press, Inc
“I don't turn Britney Spears into a star. I have to spot that these people are going to be stars, in the future, and say, "Okay, these guys have cultural validity and they're going to pop."”

Source : Source: collider.com
“If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we make shapes on paper, why then does it so often look like the traditional, straight models, why does our longing look for example like John Updike's longing?”

Source : Carole Maso (2000). “Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, & Moments of Desire”, Counterpoint Press

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