Blizzard Ceo Quotes & Sayings

The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy ... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake. They expand our freedom to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are of importance on their own — Amartya Sen

Winter came to an end, and spring arrived, in its fully glory. I remember looking at the blooming trees and flowers and thinking of how incongruous is the beauty of nature against the ugliness of man. — Henry Orenstein

These two ways to incorporate mindfulness sit well with art therapy: first, by incorporating meditative or contemplative methods to facilitate relaxation and deepen the inward turn for connecting with deeper consciousness in all phases of the art task; second, by introducing cognitive skills to bring clients into the present moment with what they are feeling. Not how (guilt, anger, shame), but what (I feel helpless, unworthy, agitated). Cognitive mindfulness also provides a skillful means for dialoguing with art, where remaining open and image-centered may result in deeper insights. — Barbara Jean Davis

Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America? — E.B. White

A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it. — Michel De Montaigne

But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental. — Stephen Spender

Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little. — Fred Astaire

Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny ... — Charlotte Charke

In a way I guess I'd be a bad judge of what it was like because it just seemed perfectly normal to me. — Susan Olsen

begins. Like Adam and Eve, you don't really understand your true identity. The enemy knows that as long as he can keep you away from understanding who you truly are, then you will continue to work really hard all of your life to somehow reach the same reality of the Garden. Yet all along, even though you don't realize it, what you are trying to reach outside is already within you. — Pablo Giacopelli

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost. — Johnny Ball

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them? — Lauryn Hill

The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror. — Jill Lepore

How learned and fine we believed ourselves to be! How shitty of the world to deal with us this way. — Robert Stone