Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
ALAN CUMMINGActually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
ALAN CUMMINGReligion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.
HERACLITUSPower is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
JONATHAN SWIFTWhen work is not going well, it’s useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers – and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.
ALAIN DE BOTTONHe … knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.
ALAN CUMMINGThe more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
MARK TWAINYour lies were so beautiful that I miss them more than you.
HADLEY ALLISONIt was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, ‘Why am I so black?’ And she said, ‘Because I’m black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.’
BERNIE MACThe more divided people of color are in a system of white supremacy/privilege, the weaker they will be, both individually and collectively.
TIM TEBOWNo matter who you are, you have a giant self.
AGAPI STASSINOPOULOSIt is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
ALAIN DE BOTTONI don’t have to live up to that Superwoman myth. I can cry and be human and lean on people who take care of me. That can be very liberating.
ASSATA SHAKURI am not too intelligent.
KAPIL DEVThere is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with its colonial system. It shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.
BARBARA WARDBecause, in the end, it was just promises.
NORAH ROSEHis stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.
ALAN BLINDER