"The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told."

-- Annie Leonard

#Knowing Quotes #Stories Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.”
“Tyra the businesswoman is very close to - and I hate third person, but you said it, oh, chiiild, you said it - but me the businessperson and me the person: very similar. I can be in a business meeting and be all 'Wooo!' and 'Oh, child!' and still be talking revenues and profits and cash flows.”
“Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. Thats just the nature of the beast.”
“crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another.”
“A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership”
“I knew that I would have to be brave. Not foolhardy, not in love with risk and danger, not making ridiculous exhibitions of myself to prove that I wasn't terrified--really genuinely brave. Brave enough to be quiet when quiet was called for, brave enough to observe before flinging myself into something, brave enough to not abandon my true self when someone else wanted to seduce or force me in a direction I didn't want to go, brave enough to stand my ground quietly.”
“I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.”
“I eat too much. I drink to much. A greedy selfish such-n-such. But when I wrap my turban on my mind is clear, I'm 'Baba Lon'.”

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