Trying Quotes

If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.

John Petrucci
- Time
- Trying
- Feeling
It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so on. I think in retrospect my generation will be seen as a turning point. From now on there'll be a net loss of knowledge in Europe. The difference between a peasant community in fourteenth-century Iran and modern London, though, is that if with their meager resources the villagers occasionally slipped backward, it was not for lack of trying. But with us, here in England, it was a positive choice. We chose to know less.

Sebastian Faulks
- People
- Community
- Choices