#erin

People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK? ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#always #am #art #artist #clearly

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that. ↗

— Jack Welch

#chewing #chewing gum #commitments #deliver #delivering

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#always #care #child #did #i

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#closer #creates #fragmentation #healthy #helps

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#each #happy #other #single #single word

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#beings #encourages #endure #helps #human

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind. ↗

— George Will

#between #choice #eligible #equally #food

I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400. ↗

— Ted Williams

#guy #hit #hits #hope #i

I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#come #destroy #foreigners #help #i

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out. ↗

— Steven Wright

#call #car #home #i #leave