“For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every second of our lives, every expenditure that we make. And the schools are the training ground to create a population that's easy to manage.” WantReasonSchoolEasyOur LivesAmbitionTrainingFairsManagementPopulationEndlessManageDomainFoulEvery SecondExpendituresManagement Systems Author:John Taylor Gatto
“We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.” IfsKnowsWayLifeInspirationalPurposeDiesGoalOur LivesAmbitionThemeLiving My LifeYour Purpose In LifeLive With Purpose Author:Mary Kay Ash
“At a tender age, I commandeered half a quire of foolscap from my father's desk and sat down to write a book. ...I had observed onprinted fly leaves the words "By the author of, etc." ...So under the title of my prospective work I wrote: By the author of "Les Miserables," "The Woman in White," "Dombey and Son," "Tom Brown's Schooldays" and "Our Life in the Highlands," the last-named being an opus of good Queen Victoria. I had not read all these works but they existed on our bookshelves, and I hoped to produce something worthy of comparison.” WritingBookAgeLastsFatherWhiteHalfOur LivesProduceSonAmbitionWorthyTitlesQueensSatBrownEtcComparisonTomsDesksVictoriaBookshelves Author:Rheta Childe Dorr
“It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the rest. Even idleness, as feeble and languishing as it is, sometimes reigns over them; it usurps the throne and sits paramount over all the designs and actions of our lives, and imperceptibly wastes and destroys all our passions and all our virtues.” SometimesAbleActionPassionStrongVirtueOur LivesDesignWasteAmbitionErrorsViolentLazinessThronesReignIdlenessParamountVanquishStrong Passion Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.” ChildrenBodyProcessOur LivesCreationBearsAmbitionWork OutElementals Author:Saint Augustine
“When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations.” HomeJobsJesusLordOur LivesAmbitionPossessionSexualityTrust In GodUnemploymentOur LordCommitment To GodRecreationConfidence In GodServant Of GodGreatness Of GodGod Is In ControlLordshipHome And Family Author:John Stott
“Philosophy... is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better than itself- and this on the basis of no expert knowledge, of nothing closed to the ordinary human being, once... [one] lets himself or herself be informed by the process and ambition of philosophy.” HumansPhilosophyProcessHuman BeingsOur LivesOffersAmbitionOrdinaryBasesFoundationExpertsOutrageousRecompense Author:Stanley Cavell