"Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance."

-- E. F. Schumacher

#Lying Quotes #Self Quotes #Roots Quotes

“Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.”
“I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life. I also try to convey what it feels like and sounds like and smells like and looks like inside of my particular skin, to move through the world as a black American woman in her mid-twenties. Language from songs and TV shows feel integral because it helps to create the environment and describe the full picture.”

Source : "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.
“I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.”
“Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, you change everything into bitterness by constantly brooding over everything. For the love of God, replace all this self-scrutiny with a pure and simple glance at God's goodness.”
“Even if the gods did exist, the Epicureans argued, they didn't care about us. Rather, everything comes from nature, and all that really exists are atoms and void, moving and congregating.”
“In the new organisation, power flows from expertise, not position.”
“Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.”

Source : Raymond Carver, Marshall Bruce Gentry, William L. Stull (1990). “Conversations with Raymond Carver”, p.52, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.”

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