Voorstanders Quotes & Sayings

Get yourself empty in the Eastern sense. Not in the Western sense. In the Western sense when we feel empty we feel lonely, miserable, but in the Eastern sense - "I'm so empty, because I'm filled with everything, and I'm connected to everything." It's very energizing. You want that kind of emptiness, whatever you have to do to get yourself quiet. — Sandra Cisneros

Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is. — Liu Cixin

When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to talk about were the ideas in the movie, the theme of it, and contextual elements that weren't necessarily central to the story. But the only thing people really wanted was a plot description and how many stars I'd give it. It didn't matter how much effort you put into writing a piece, they looked at it solely as a consumer's guide toward going or not going to films. — Chuck Klosterman

Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader. — Georgi Plekhanov

Lean too much upon the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns. — Tehyi Hsieh