Quotes
Authors
Tom Peters

"I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers...creativity above fact regurgitation...individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance..... And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy."

-- Tom Peters

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“I believe every single woman could accomplish what I've accomplished.”
“But most of all I was inspired by the stirring examples of all the other runners. In some pictures they would seem like tiny dots in a mosaic, but each had a separate narrative starting a few months or a lifetime earlier and finishing that day in the New York City Marathon, the race with 37,000 stories.”

Source : Mark Sutcliffe (2013). “Why I Run: The Remarkable Journey of the Ordinary Runner”, p.70, eBookIt.com
“But for the media to name their coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq the same as what the Pentagon calls itâ€”everyday seeing 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'â€”you have to ask: 'If this were state controlled media, how would it be any different?'”
“It's nice when people love you....for you.”
“Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.”
“I love it when you're demented like this.”
“"The Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of Bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State": I was happy that we finally got him. And a lot of my colleagues and friends that I know who sacrificed so much, some of them their lives, you know, finally can rest, knowing that he's dead.But also, at the same time, I kind of was troubled that we are now not fighting an organization anymore. The terrorists, the threat mutated to a message. Bin Laden accomplished something way bigger. He had a message that was spreading around the Muslim world.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“You can't do anything about them...”

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