Jay Keasling Quotes & Sayings

Storytellers do not convert their listeners; they do not move them into the territory of a superior truth. Ignoring the issue of truth and falsehood altogether, they offer only vision. Storytelling is therefore not combative; it does not succeed or fail. A story cannot be obeyed. Instead of placing one body of knowledge against another, storytellers invite us to return from knowledge to thinking, from a bounded way of looking to an horizonal way of seeing. — James P. Carse

Many adults, whether consciously or unconsciously, find it beneath their adult dignity to do anything as childish as read a book, think a thought, or get an idea. Adults are rarely embarrased at having forgotten what little algebra or geography they once learned — Isaac Asimov

In fact, the real source of all those differences, is that the savage lives within himself, whereas the citizen, constantly beside himself, knows only how to live in the opinion of others; insomuch that it is, if I may say so, merely from their judgment that he derives the consciousness of his own existence. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Let bricks of truth fill the skies and send their walls of conformity crashing down
And let the heavens echo with the blows of our liberation — Steven A. Williams

Your friends love you anyway. — Dave Barry

Life has no romance without risk. — Sarah Doherty

A great book remains eternally in one's memory as today's legend. — Mayi Ngwala

When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present ... we experience heaven on earth. — Sarah Ban Breathnach