"I never wanted to be a career politician. I always am interested just to take on challenges that everyone says are impossible to do and to take it on."

-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Careers Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Impossible Quotes

“We need to reshape the movement as one of grassroots activists, and not 'professional activists' who populate the seemingly endless number of national animal rights groups. For many people, activism has become writing a check to a national group that is very pleased to have you leave it to them. Although it is important to give financial support to worthy efforts only, giving money is not enough and giving to the wrong groups can actually do more harm than good.”
“But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.”

Source : Scarlett Thomas (2008). “The End Of Mr. Y”, p.26, Canongate Books
“Too much agreement kills the chat.”
“Fred didn't have a favourite colour. He was just pleased that he could see all of the colours in the colour chart. That was his wish for everyone. Fred wanted people to experience the joy of seeing vivid colours - in nature: the greens and browns of the mountains; in their work: the orange, red and black of the back of the retina; and in life.”
“We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.”
“Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.”
“If youâ€™re comparing the badness of two words and you wonâ€™t even say one of them [the n-word], thatâ€™s the worse word.”
“Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.”

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