"If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking."

-- R. Buckminster Fuller

#Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes #People Quotes

“I had a dream. I had an awesome dream.”
“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”
“When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude. Information that is consistent with our pre-existing beliefs is often accepted at face value, whereas evidence that contradicts them is critically scrutinized and discounted. Our beliefs may thus be less responsive than they should to the implications of new information”

Source : Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.50, Simon and Schuster
“Before facing you enemy, you must first face yourself.”
“Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.”
“Sometimes I'll watch an old movie on television and, once in a while, one of mine, such as April Showers, will come on and I'll watch it. And you know something? I'm always amazed at what a lousy actress I was. I guess in the old days we just got by on glamour.”
“Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.”
“I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it.”

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