Provoking Quotes
In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.
Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?
I expect to be great. I expect to do what hasn't been done. I expect to provoke change.
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.
I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.
Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin.
It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.
Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.
Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.
To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.
A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk being left in the dust.
