"Only when you're nervous do you get nasty."

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Source : Deborah Grey (2004). “Never retreat, never explain, never apologize: my life, my politics”

Deborah Grey

#Nasty Quotes #Nervous Quotes

“Being with my family is my highest priority.”
“Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how highly placed the sources in the bureaucracy. Don't ever forget that. You're a damn good writer, but that talent is completely worthless if you forget your job description.”
“Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand, serves to confirm old mindsets, rigid categories. Artists, who live in the same world as the rest of us, steer clear of these mindsets to make us see things anew.”

Source : Ellen J. Langer (1989). “Mindfulness”, Da Capo Press
“No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, you are beautiful”
“Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I grew my beard there was a certain freedom, a separation, getting past this the way I looked, identify myself as a spiritual seeker.”
“Are there a lot of designers that matter? The industry hasnâ€™t got a litmus test any more. The whole thing has imploded. Watch it die, like the banking industry”
“For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.”
“There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.”

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