"If you ask people to remember a painting and a photograph, their description of the photograph is far more accurate than that of the painting. Strangely enough, there is a physical element intertwined with the painting. It shakes loose an emotional element within the viewer."

-- Luc Tuymans

#Emotional Quotes #People Quotes #Elements Quotes

“Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.”
“Can't you tell when you're with someone who's listening? She hears you, really hears you. He hears the sadness in your tone or catches your joy. Be a listener, to music, to life, to others, to God. Life is noisy, but there is music in every heartbeat. God is waiting to bring joy and peace to the confusion of our days.”

Source : Sheila Walsh (1999). “Bring Back the Joy: Rekindling the Joy in Your Relationship with God”, Zondervan Publishing Company
“I am my own mentor. I like to listen to myself to improve.”
“When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?”
“The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.”

Source : "Robert Reich's Call to 'Reason'". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.
“Then: I google "time-series visualization" and start work on a new version of my model, thinking that maybe I can impress her with a prototype. I am really into the kind of girl you can impress with a prototype.”
“As an individual navigating this reality, you have to make choices to survive. Sometimes you happily work for free if it's something you love and believe in. I'm not categorically saying that working for free is bad. I'm just looking at the broader implications of it, and also challenge this idea - and again, this is an argument made by certain people in the tech world - that amateurs are automatically more pure and will triumph over stodgy professionals.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“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

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