Mark Hinkle's Tumblelog

Profound quotes tagged by the less than prolific Mark Hinkle or stuff to random for the Socialized Software Blog
Mar 25
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
Mar 19
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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Mar 16
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I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they’re doing. I’m concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that’s handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.

Howard Zinn

Author, A People’s History of the United States

R.I.P. Howard Zinn, Historian of the People « morphizm

Mar 09
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Feb 23
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Jan 04
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Did you want to scream, when you were a child, seeing nothing but fat ineptitude around you, knowing how many things could be done and done so well, but having no power to do them? Having no power to blast the empty skulls around you? Having to take orders- and that’s bad enough- but to take orders from your inferiors! Have you felt that?

Gail Wynand

The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand

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A person can have the greatest idea in the world. But if that person can’t convince enough other people, it doesn’t matter.
— George Burns
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Some managers are uncomfortable with expressing emotion about their dreams, but it’s the passion and emotion that will attract others.
Jan 28
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Will: Cause fuck him, that’ why.
Dec 09
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Marketing is the tax you pay for being unremarkable”
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