Weichai Power Quotes

#1. Our religious systems have taught us to "train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22:6) I couldn't disagree more. How about, "feed a child what it needs, so when it gets grows up, it will "be" its own unique unpredictably creative self.

Christopher Zzenn Loren

#2. Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#3. Above thought is the intellect, which still seeks: it goes about looking, spies out here and there, picks up and drops. But above the intellect that seeks is another intellect which does not seek but stays in its pure, simple being, which is embraced in that light.

Meister Eckhart

#4. I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!

Steve Jobs

#5. Has a world composed of "us" and "not us" been invaded at last?

Bisco Hatori

#6. There is something to this fabric of life that is beautiful. If you find the world unpleasant, I don't think that is wisdom. That is a sign of a lack of wisdom.

Frederick Lenz

#7. I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150 or 200 years and I am quite prepared to go myself with this majority ... let us all look forward to the day when the catastrophe strikes us down!

John Aspinall

#8. The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Soren Kierkegaard

#9. There is no surer means of calling down God's blessing upon the family than the daily recitation of the Rosary.

Pope Pius XII

#10. I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

Brad Thor

#11. I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

Michael Connelly