"She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting."

-- Alan Garner

#Flower Quotes #Hunting Quotes #Owl Quotes

“Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet”
“It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.”
“If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.”
“It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.”
“There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.”
“Time is what death needs to grow people in.”
“The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.”
“Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it's many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.”

Source : Scott Berkun (2010). “The Myths of Innovation”, p.8, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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