#minds

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#came #evil #genocide #history #how

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must. ↗

— Tony Blair

#defeat #defeated #just #meeting #minds

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children. ↗

— Walt Disney

#classrooms #crowded #greatest #minds #national

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#age #ask #changed #dad #disappointed

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds. ↗

— John Dryden

#different #different way #enlightens #fool #love

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds. ↗

— Walter Duranty

#hopes #minds #most #people #problem

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#business #business community #community #difficult #difficult task

What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. ↗

— William Blum

#also #beings #else #human #human beings

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#around #biography #doing #going #him

When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#london #minds #our #race #record