"What we mean by maturity in people's thinking is not a matter of how smart they are, but it is a matter of the order of consciousness in which they exercise their smartness or their lack of it."

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Source : Robert Kegan (1995). “In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life”, p.130, Harvard University Press

Robert Kegan

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“What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.”
“I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.”
“Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong.”
“The idea of the record is that it's a statement for working with a group, of a collaborative work. That should be visible in the music.”

Source : "Pantha du Prince’s Bell Hooks". Interview with Nathan Reese, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2013.
“We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations, and specialists, and put those fragments back together again in our own minds and in our families and household and neighborhoods.”
“I would never be on a reality show.”
“For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender, true, and tried, and record with a thankfulness that years deepen instead of diminishing, "I have got a friend!"”
“I'm particularly struck by the neo-socialist concern for the well-being of plants, animals, lakes and rivers, rain forests and deserts - particularly when the concern for the environment appears far more intense than the concern for the human family.”

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