Tickbird Rhino Quotes & Sayings

The two goals of liberation and social justice are not obviously compatible, any more than were the liberty and equality advocated at the French Revolution. If liberation involves the liberation of individual potential, how do we stop the ambitious, the energetic, the intelligent, the good-looking and the strong from getting ahead, and what should we allow ourselves by way of constraining them? — Roger Scruton

There's an adage in Silicon Valley that people who use online services are not the customers. We're the product. As — Dan Lyons

Why did you take this job?" I ask. "It doesn't make sense. You're so young - "
"It was an honor to be promoted," she says, but the words have a hollow ring. I can see her drawing back into herself, into her role.
"Who did you lose?" I ask.
Carmen flashes a smile that is at once dazzling and sad. "I'm a Librarian, Miss Bishop. I've lost everyone. — Victoria Schwab

You know, I've written many of my songs while driving - which is against the law in many cases. — Chuck D

You don't force change; you just open yourself to its possibilities and let it work through you. — Frederick Lenz

We are beginning to learn that an empathic moment requires both intimate engagement and a measure of detachment. If our feelings completely spill over into another's feelings or their feelings overwhelm our psyche, we lose a sense of self and the ability to imagine the other as if they were us. Empathy is a difficult balancing act. One has to be open to experiencing another's plight as if it were one's own but not be engulfed by it, at the expense of drowning out the self's ability to be a unique and separate being. Empathy requires a porous boundary between I and thou that allows the identity of two beings to mingle in a shared mental space.
- The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis — Jeremy Rifkin

Find something good within your life and give every ounce of positivity you have towards it, then watch how your life changes. — Leon Brown

To obtain success, you must get the most out of your ability and to do that you must work on your weaknesses. — Joe Morgan

I would love to say that I have an eighth-inning guy, a seventh-inning guy, a left-handed guy, a long guy. — Brad Ausmus

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. — Daniel Goleman

Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino. — Julius Nyerere

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it. — Rex Brandt

What steps can I take to
reduce the clutter so that I may live simply and joyously? — Douglas Bloch

I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see. — Catherynne M Valente

Like the pioneers of old, a creative person breaks new ground daily. — Anna Olson

Having spent two years at AOL, I would love to be able to go back to that industry knowing what I know, and I think I would be able to help the traditional media side to better understand what is coming at them, how to deal with it. — Randy Falco