"If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters"

-- E. F. Schumacher

#Ambition Quotes #Economic Quotes #Masters Quotes

“...the air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after youâ€™ve been to the dentist or aches like your heart in the bosom when you stand on the street corner waiting for the light to change and happen to recollect how things once were and how they might have been yet if what happened had not happened.”
“My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.”
“Probems must be resolved at the level beneath the one at which they occur.”
“Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.”
“I like my hair long, and I love my bangs. I love them because I can pin them back or keep the fringe with attitude.”
“As a result of continuous work with these highly toxic substances, our minds were so numbed that we no longer had any scruples about the whole thing. Anyway, our enemies had by now adopted our methods and as they became increasingly successful in this mode of warfare we were no longer exclusively the aggressors, but found ourselves more and more at the receiving end.”

Source : Otto Hahn (1970). “My life: the autobiography of a scientist”, MacDonald
“The first mark of intelligence, to be sure, is not to start things; the second mark of intelligence is to pursue to the end what you have started.”
“A lot of people say they love running because of how they feel afterward. Not me. Well, I love that, too, but it's also so much fun while I'm out there.”

Source : Dick Beardsley, Maureen Anderson (2004). “Staying the Course: A Runner's Toughest Race”, p.46, U of Minnesota Press

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