"What are the conditions of the creative attitude, of seeing and responding, of being aware and being sensitive to what one is aware of? First of all it requires the capacity to be puzzled. Children still have the capacity to be puzzled."

-- Erich Fromm

#Children Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Creative Quotes

“I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.”
“In romance, I canâ€™t stand this scenario: A woman is awakened to find a strange man in her bedroomâ€”and then automatically finds him attractive. Iâ€™m sorry, but if I awoke to a strange man in my bedroom, Iâ€™d be reaching for a weaponâ€”not admiring the view.”
“I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things.”
“We each have two human needs: To learn and grow & to be respected, accepted and loved the way you are. Even though feedback facilitates learning and growth, it conflicts with our need to feel respected. This is a key reason we resist feedback.”
“What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it”

Source : Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.159, Penguin
“If you're not willing to go too far, you'll never go far enough in life.”
“Whatever the truth is, I donâ€™t see how it will help me get food on the table.”
“Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.”

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