"Too slow, the wagons of years, The oxen of days--too glum. Our god is the god of speed, Our heart--our battle-drum."

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Source : Vladimir Mayakovsky (1972). “Poems”

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#Heart Quotes #Years Quotes #Oxen Quotes

“Tired, ashamed, and mortified, I begged to sit down till we returned home, which I did soon after. Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him ! O these fashionable people!”
“It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.”
“Nonresistance is one of the principles of aikido. Because there is no resistance, you have won before even starting. People whose minds are evil or who enjoy fighting are defeated without a fight.”
“Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.”

Source : Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger (2011). “The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.195, Basic Books
“Why would anybody lie? The truth is always more colourful.”
“This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”
“I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.”
“Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.”

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