A Quote by Graydon Carter
It's a rare moment when we take a break from the tribulations of the daily rat race to reflect on assumptions and values that we casually accept as gospel.
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The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.
Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime values and motivations.
What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.
The rat race is real. I was part of the rat race.
We have a tendency to make assumptions about everything! The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are truth. We could swear they are real. We make assumptions about what others are doing or thinking-we take it personally-then we blame them and react by sending emotional poison in our word. That is why whenever we make assumptions, we're asking for problems. We make assumptions, we misunderstand, we take it personally, and we end up creating a whole big drama for nothing.
It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat.
People sometimes forget that a rat race can be won only by a rat.
Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.
Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.
Only a rat can win a rat race.
Gospel artists have to do something that secular artists don't always have to do and that's kind of abide by and reflect a certain set of values and morals. So everything that we do, every decision that we make, every picture that we take has a different weight on it. It's always interesting in balancing being an artist but being a minister as well.
It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite it makes the rebuke personal the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine.
In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values but the rejected rat race, ... it is extremely hard to aim at objective truth or world culture. One's own products are likely to be personal or parochial.
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