"Iâ€™ll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it."

-- William Goldman

“If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding.”

Source : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.354, Anchor
“I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.”

Source : "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 146), 1986.
“I'm not afraid of a world with less consumerism, less 'stuff' and no economic growth. I'm far more frightened of the opposite”
“If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one â€” pure, dure, sÃ»re, [Pure, hard, certain] â€” in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal.”
“There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.”
“The image of success is important, but even more important is the ability to focus on solutions instead of on problems. That way, you'll never be thinking like a loser, and you probably won't look like one either.”
“We can overcome evil with greater good.”
“Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.”

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