Don Mazankowski quotes

“I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.”
-- Don Mazankowski

#Humorous Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Profound Quotes

“This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not.”

“The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.”

“In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.”

“If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.”

“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”

“Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.”

“... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their political conscience and express their desire for change and profound democratization of society. A change based on justice, built with love, and which will bring us the most anxiously desired fruits of peace.”

“A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.”