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#1. What if the drive to survive was a form of faith, a form of prayer?

Anne Rice

#2. Any two people have different ideas of what is important.

W. Edwards Deming

#3. I am being perfectly fucking civil.

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. Now every daughter of Eve want to "control her surrounding, her relationships, her God." No longer is she vulnerable; now she will be grasping. No longer does she want simply to share in the adventure; she wants to control it.

John Eldredge

#5. Big mind is something to express, not something to figure out. Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for.

Shunryu Suzuki

#6. We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

Barry Gibb

#7. Lord, let me write,
leave me autistic and typing
until my windows bust into a thousand silver doves
and I know the poem is done.

Buddy Wakefield

#8. To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

Teju Cole

#9. No one seemed to understand. I'd go to movies, see friends, but after a couple days I'd catch myself reading plane schedules, looking for something, someplace to go: a bomb in Afghanistan, a flood in Haiti. I'd become a predator, endlessly gliding in saltwater seas, searching for the scent of blood.

Anderson Cooper

#10. I feel like I've done a pretty good job of scaling because I got some great mentors along the way that helped me realize I just have to build a phenomenal team around me that makes my job a lot easier.

Nick Woodman

#11. The planting of [orchards] represents a reduction of a complex ecology into the monocultural grid of modern agriculture, and the transformation of a complex symbiosis with the land into the simpler piecework or agricultural labour for surplus and export.

Rebecca Solnit