"Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it's a really good thing to remember."

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Source : "BM's Ginni Rometty: Growth and comfort do not coexist". Interview with Jessi Hempel, fortune.com. October 5, 2011.

Ginni Rometty

#Thinking Quotes #Growth Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.”
“I moved in fourth grade in the middle of the school year, and I was the new kid in school.”

Source : "‘90210’ Star Michael Steger Opens Up About Childhood Bullying: ‘You Feel Like You’re Going To Die’" by Lee Hernandez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.
“A book is maybe about 350 pages, and the prose allows for readers to get a glimpse into the internal lives of the characters. A screenplay is 120 pages, and it's all dialogue and action. The pacing of films is different, the structure is often different, and the internal lives of the characters must come across through the acting. Movies are just a different experience than reading - so it just depends on what an individual prefers.”
“You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.”
“In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.”
“That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to our ancestors. As we voyage we are creating new stories within the tradition of the old stories, we are literally creating a new culture out of the old.”
“The perspective of eternity is not a perspective from a certain place beyond the world, nor the point of view of a transcendent being; rather it is a certain form of thought and feeling that rational persons can adopt within the world ... Purity of heart, if one could attain it, would be to see clearly and to act with grace and self-command from this point of view.”
“One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.”

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