"My book, Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research is about how researchers use this method and how to write up their oral history projects so that audiences can read them. It's important that researchers have many different tools available to study people's lives and the cultures we live in. I think oral history is a most needed and uniquely important strategy."

-- Patricia Leavy

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.”
“I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.”
“I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.”
“There are four things that make a man fight as you just did," the duke explained to Rumbold. "Love, despair, anger, or insanity." Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.”

Source : Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The tragedy of modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in effecting democracy.”
“Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.”
“Different people are afforded different opportunities. I've been given some awesome opportunities, and I feel that I've always knocked them out of the park. But I've always been scaled back after that.”
“Everybody is born good and everybody has got the same size soul. We're here to connect with that.”

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