Eric Zorn Quotes

• There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.

  Eric Zorn

  Change, Talking, Priorities

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• Don't waste your breath proclaiming what's really important to you. How you spend your time says it all.

  Eric Zorn

  Priorities, Important, Waste

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• Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

  Eric Zorn

  Funny, New Year, Honesty

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• I don't know if God exists and I don't care. God's will and design for this temporal and spatial vastness, if any, is so patently, deliberately impenetrable that I doubt any mortal has a grasp on it. The very inexplicability of sad events like the tsunami, like the AIDS crisis or even like the cancer death of the father of one of my daughter's 2nd-grade classmates last week are, to me, reminders to focus on our obligations to one another, not to the infinite; to honor the creator, if any, by honoring creation itself and hoping that's good enough.

  Eric Zorn

  Daughter, Father, Cancer

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• Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you’re not failing from time to time, you’re not pushing yourself. And if you’re not pushing yourself, you’re coasting.

  Eric Zorn

  Mediocrity, Pushing, Tickets

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• This sense of the safe-deposit box as a totem of responsible security inspired me to rent a box myself shortly after the birth of our first child….

  Eric Zorn

  Children, Safe, Totems

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• If you're a fan of American roots music, you won't want to miss 'Awake My Soul--The Story of the Sacred Harp.' Filmmakers Matt and Erica Hinton have done a fine job capturing the history, sound and spirit of this unusual but compelling art form that, trust me, you don't have to be religious to appreciate.

  Eric Zorn

  Religious, Art, Jobs

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• I think it's weird that people think someone who's not a politician could be the mayor of Chicago.

  Eric Zorn

  Thinking, People, Chicago

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.

  Eric Zorn

  Empathy, Flow, Virtue

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• You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

  Eric Zorn

  Time, Common, Idiom

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