Quotes About Integration

Busing is no good. When you bus kids, they don't earn nothing.

All of our people all over the country—except the pure-blooded Indians—are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.

Emotions belong as much to the body as to the mind.

The initial animosity between divergent approaches can be overcome if we realize that each has something to offer that the other lacks. We may weave them together into a new whole that is stronger than the sum of its parts.

A soul cannot develop and progress without an appropriate body, because it is the physical body that furnishes the material for its development.

The more living patterns there are in a place—a room, a building, or a town—the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire, which is the quality without a name.1 —Christopher Alexander

Wilson also makes a powerful point when he says that strong character leads to the integrated self—a joining of head and heart, where thoughts, feelings, and actions are in harmony, resulting in behavior that demonstrates the character of an individual who walks the talk of his or her belief system.

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

You are a guest of nature - behave.

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

Der romantische Imperativ fordert die Mischung aller Dichtarten. All Natur und Wissenschaft soll Kunstwerden—Kunst soll Natur werden und Wissenschaft. Imperativ: die Poesie soll sittlich und die Sittlichkeit sollpoetisch sein.

Das erinnert zugleich daran, dass der Zusammenhang von Bildung und Glaube oder Religion heute im Blick auf die multireligiöse Situation in unserer Gesellschaft analysiert und erörtert werden muss.

if the potential employees made the mistake of talking about wanting a harmonious balance between work and home life, Bezos rejected them.

Nothing can be separated from everything else.

Same deal here. It's not "you" and "the universe." It's "universeyou.

It'll take a hell of a long time, but one day they will have their piece of the world, and my grandchildren will be going to school with their grandchildren or great-grandchildren. And whites will be marrying colored. And everyone becoming some kind of light shade if brown. That's what it'll be one day.

I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.

You are not worse for your association with the world, but it is better for its association with you.

You are worse for your association with the world, but it is better for its association with you.

And Rand opened his eyes for the first time in a very long while. He knew—somehow—that he would never again hear Lews Therin's voice in his head. For they were not two men, and never had been.

Many people are coming to believe that the tenets of Christianity and Marxism can actually be meshed, but they make the mistake of believing the result can still be called Christianity.

Brain health is key to health in every area—physical, emotional, mental, spiritual.

I don't trust a theologian who dismisses the beauty of science or a scientist who doesn't believe in the power of mystery.

We're wired for story. In a culture of scarcity and perfectionism, there's a surprisingly simple reason we want to own, integrate, and share our stories of struggle. We do this because we feel the most alive when we're connecting with others and being brave with our stories - it's in our biology.