"You cant drag people from understanding to action. A customer isnt actually at the last mile if youre the one dragging her to the finish line."

-- Thomas P.M. Barnett

#People Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Lines Quotes

“Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.”

Source : "The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause". Book by Germaine Greer, 1991.
“The game is always going to be bigger than the man and it doesn't matter what you are doing; records or whatever, somebody is just going to come along and break your records. But to achieve something that people would always look up to is something you will always appreciate.”
“Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?”

Source : Alfred De Vigny (2018). “Cinq Mars”, p.12, BoD – Books on Demand
“Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.”
“I consider acting a day job - it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all.”
“To women, drummers seem like these adorable, sexy Neanderthals, and lead singers seem mysterious and dangerous. So while the lead singers all want to be David Bowie, floating into parties and being the center of attention, it's the drummers who are in the corner doing keg stands and breaking tables. Usually it's the drummers who get the fun-loving ladies and the singers who get the nutcases.”
“The cancer I don't have is everywhere now.”
“Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.”

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