Pruska Mapa Quotes & Sayings

Success is not achieved, it is attracted. — Farshad Asl

The illusion of being superior engenders the need to prove it; and so oppression is born. A bishop in Africa told me that, even though there were few Christians in the area, he had built his cathedral bigger than the local mosque. All this to prove that Christianity was a better, more powerful religion than Islam. So we build walls around our group and cultivate our certitudes. Prejudice grows on such walls. How did we, the human race, get to this position where we judge it natural not just to band ourselves into groups, but to set ourselves group against group, neighbour against neighbour, in order to establish some ephemeral sense of superiority? One of the fundamental issues for people to examine is how to break down these walls that separate us one from another; how to open up one to another; how to create trust and places of dialogue. — Jean Vanier

Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity. — Truman Capote

The only way to prove that your software is easy to change is to make easy changes to it. And when you find that the changes aren't as easy as you thought, you refine the design so that the next change is easier. When do you make these easy changes? All the time! Every time you look at a module you make small, lightweight changes to it to improve its structure. — Robert C. Martin

During their separation, something had happened to Annabeth's feelings. They'd grown painfully intense-like she'd been forced to withdraw from a life-saving medication. Now she wasn't sure which was more excruciating-living with that horrible absence, or being with him again. — Rick Riordan

She's it. She's my everything. She's the standard by which I'll judge beauty for the rest of my life. I'll measure every touch to her breath on my skin. Every voice to her voice. Every mind to her mind. My measure of perfection. The name carved into me. If I could, I would lie with her under these stars until my heart burst. — Jeff Zentner

Out of the current confusion of ideals and and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity. — Matthew B. Crawford

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design. — Oliver Sacks

The first twenty-four hours of a young man's life in London usually settled his eternity in heaven or hell. — George Williams

It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Continuously lying to yourself is just as fatal as suicide; only slower. Take ownership of your life, be accountable to you. — Noel DeJesus

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well. — Jeff Bridges