Routinized Conformity Quotes

#1. It was no half-hearted spring, this: the whole island vibrated with it as though a great, ringing chord had been struck. Everyone and everything heard it and responded.

Gerald Durrell

#2. The healthcare industry has never had a priority on user experience because there has been little competition. Prices have never been transparent.

John Sculley

#3. Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system

Giorgio Agamben

#4. Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

John C. Maxwell

#5. A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.

Arthur Bloch

#6. Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.

George Crabbe

#7. I like high school and college writing textbooks and find them very helpful. Whenever I'm stuck and seem to have no ideas, I open one up and turn to the back. There I'll find questions like, "Have you had any experiences with an alcoholic or a sailor?"

David Sedaris

#8. Heart on fire, ashes everywhere
- there's no return from a red like that

Manuel De Freitas

#9. Those who get the invitation are the ones who realize, that the invitation, only comes from deep within.

Bryant McGill

#10. Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

Lance Armstrong

#11. If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.

Robert Jordan

#12. Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.

Robin S. Sharma

#13. I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

Ted Turner

#14. Consciousness: That annoying time between naps

Steven Wright

#15. The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles, confounding all our efforts to comprehend it, is the earth.

Lewis Thomas