Nonmeritocratic Quotes & Sayings

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something. — Thomas A. Edison

Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education. — Peter Hilton

I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth. — Deepak Chopra

It's a hard man who's only just, and a sad man who's only wise. — Gregory Benford

Easy success had transformed the American auto companies into risk-averse, nonmeritocratic, bloated bureaucracies. — Reid Hoffman

Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives. — Cherrie Moraga

My love for Sherry had been a shout across the silent night. Standing back here, in this town with her, was like being in a canyon. That shout became an echo, and that love sounded like a deafening never-ending roar. — Jeannine Allison

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry. — Max Beerbohm

Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Her blue eyes went right through him and reminded him of how thirsty he was from their ocean tint. — Zach Bohannon

Believing in your standards for a square deal, even when there's no way to get it, is what allows you to create boundaries and take independent action. — Michael I. Bennett

I'm not a religious person; I'm not even, like, a spiritual person. — Tig Notaro

There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts for the future historian, and what do they say? They say 'Auschwitz' and 'Dresden' and 'Hiroshima' and 'Vietnam' and 'Napalm.' For many years we all woke up to the daily body count on the radio. And if there were a way to kill people with the B Minor Mass, the Pentagon-Madison Avenue axis would have found it. — Erwin Chargaff

Stasis in darkness.
Then the substanceless blue — Sylvia Plath