“When we love deeply, love makes us do things we wouldn't otherwise do.”
It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008, Zondervan)
Book: Cometan, the Omnidoxy
“When we love deeply, love makes us do things we wouldn't otherwise do.”
It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008, Zondervan)
Source: Paths to Otherwhere (1996), Ch. 28; this has occurred in paraphrased form as "Sane, normal people don't need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything."
Context: Governments everywhere are lying to people to make them hate others that they wouldn't have any quarrel with otherwise. You'd think they'd have learned something after two world wars, but where else can it lead than right where it's all going?
Theo's right — the lunatics end up in charge of everything. Sane, normal people don't need power trips.
As quoted in Missä he ovat nyt? Mallikoulun Suvi - documentary (January 2008)
“The purpose of a purpose? Tunes you to meaningful things you wouldn't be aware of, otherwise.”
23 May 2012 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/205390843010498561
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Source: Tom Peters Daily, Weekly Quote, 01 March 2021
“If you don’t care about my people, why should I care about yours?”
Part II “Phoenix” chapter 15 (p. 383)
Adulthood Rites (1988)
“I am notorious for making impassioned speeches about things nobody cares about.”
Source: Why Not Me?
“It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.”
Source: The Body
A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Collective Ownership of Code and Text