"I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things."

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Source : "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. April 12, 2007.

Tadao Ando

#Moving Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Past Quotes

“Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.”
“Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.”

Source : Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association Vol. XVII, 'Poetry and Science'
“Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.”
“I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.”
“I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?”
“Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.”
“Who we are? Us!Right? What kind of people are we? What kind of person are you? Isn't that the most important thing of all? Isn't that the kind of question we shloud be asking ourselves all the time? 'What kind of person am I?”

Source : R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.60, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“The "encounter" with the people on the peripheries is intended to draw them into the circle of common care and concern - that call to encounter is, to use a favorite world of John Paul II's, a call to solidarity. And that means, it seems to me, aggressive Catholic efforts to empower the poor - and a profound Catholic challenge to all those cultural forces that are eroding stable families, which are the elementary schools where we learn to take responsibility for our lives, which is the highest exercise of freedom.”

Source : Source: eppc.org

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