Someone Who Needs To Learn To Shut Up Quotes & Sayings

A eureka moment. It suddenly struck Mintz as so obvious. The executives entrusted with reviewing all of the LJM transactions- Causey, Buy, the board- approached their duties casually, giving everything just the onceover. They seemed to figure that somebody else was doing the tough analysis. But no one was.
p.389 — Kurt Eichenwald

The more passionate that someone is about something, the more you have to listen to them. — Beth Comstock

Solving problems - actually solving them, not just claiming you do - solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door. — Seth Godin

Our civilization is facing a radical, imminent mass change. The alternative to the hierarchical power structure is based on mutual aid and group consensus. As hackers we can learn these systems, manipulate these systems, and shut down these systems if we need to. — Jeremy Hammond

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world. — Walt Whitman

In the time of Luther, Spinoza, Galileo, or Voltaire people did not complain because they were "offended" or "insulted" by the ideas these men put forward.123 New ideas were suppressed, to be sure, and even more brutally than nowadays, but not because people said they felt "offended." The Inquisition was not "insulted" by the heretics, atheists, and secularists they brought to the stake. Where does this contemporary preoccupation with being "offended" and "insulted" come from? Why do people feel victimized if contradicted? What is the origin of those frequent calls for "respect" and "dialogue," as if there were people who advocated "disrespect" or would favor stopping the dialogue? — Paul Cliteur

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live' - the Americans understand this admonition, deep in their killer-souls. — Joyce Carol Oates

Some people don't need to work hard because they are so talented. — Matt Smith