George Packer Quotes

Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.

George Packer

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GoalsIdentityNeverCompanyAlways

What I like most about an aquarium is that all ages, from toddlers to pre-schoolers to retired grandparents, can really enjoy the wonders of the sea.

Jim Pattison

SeaEnjoyGrandparentsLikeWonders

It is quite plausible that the process of increased fragmentation of production across borders is subject to 'diminishing returns' and has its natural limits.

Jerome Powell

LimitsProcessBordersProduction

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

Andre Gide

BeautyTodayLoyaltyPastJoyMind

I believe you should give 100% on the court, so I chase every ball.

Andy Murray

BelieveYouI BelieveBallGive

If chronic bashing of the head could destroy a boxer's brain, couldn't it also destroy a football player's brain? Surely someone in the history of football had thought to look for dementia pugilistica. Unlike boxers, football players wear helmets, but a helmet can't fully protect the head from damaging impact.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

HistoryFootballBrainThoughtLook

Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?

John Robinson

FearSchoolPeopleLookingDoing

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

John Piper

GoodFutureGodHopeDarknessWait

As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey.

Stephen Gaghan

BeginningPeopleReadingBetterNew

My mother sent me to dance and drama classes when I was young, and then I got a stage role in 'Set To Partners' when I was 12, followed by Benjamin Britten's 'Let's Make An Opera.'

Shirley Eaton

MotherDanceMeDramaYoungStage

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

Roger Daltrey

LifeLiveMusicArtArtistAlways

Not being locked into one set of feelings, which you run the risk of mistaking for the truth, you have greater and more intense access to all feeling states, including those you would never choose to act out.

Mary Gaitskill

TruthYouChooseFeelingsRunNever

My whole life, I've been a Temptation.

Dennis Edwards

LifeTemptationWholeBeen

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