"When anyone lacks self-awareness and doesn't recognize their transparencies, it's always funny."

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Source : Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

Merrill Markoe

#Self Quotes #Awareness Quotes #Transparency Quotes

“I haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of.”
“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”

Source : Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33
“Eliminate the clutter. That's the key. Eliminate the clutter and understand the important things. First and foremost, the most important thing is affecting the people around you in a positive way. Second thing is, be one of those guys that's going to out-study every person there is on what you need to do from a game-plan standpoint, what you need to do from a characteristic standpoint to stand apart. The last thing is, throw it to the color jersey we're wearing.”
“I'm not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn't keep me up at night.”
“You take my imperfections and you love them divine.”
“You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that youâ€™ve got one youâ€™re trying to argue it away. People who donâ€™t believe in miracles shouldnâ€™t pray for them.”
“The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.”
“We cannot have peace on Earth until we learn to speak with one voice. That voice must be the voice of reason, the voice of compassion, the voice of love. It is the voice of divinity within us.”

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