"When we worked at the pottery, we did learn to make pots, that is, the physical act of making the pot. We learned to control clay, to put it where you want it and not just wherever it wanted to go, and that was valuable. At the end of about six months, though, I think if that was all we had, we may have been inclined to leave because the workshop did not challenge us so much as living with [Bernard] Leach did."

-- Warren MacKenzie

#Thinking Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Clay Quotes

“I want to go out there and do the best work I can.”
“My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.”
“No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.”

Source : George Matthew Adams (2016). “You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success”, p.9, Ravenio Books
“Thereâ€™s nothing wrong with ordinary. I just prefer to shoot for extraordinary.”
“Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.”
“Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.”
“A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.”
“I hope that the economic, financial and trade blockade against Cuba will be lifted, so that the economy can grow and wages can rise. But I also hope that we will not compromise our independence and become weak, and that we will never betray our ideals of equality and social justice. This is what our parents fought for, and we owe it to them.”

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