"Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent."

-- Oliver Sacks

#Children Quotes #Stories Quotes #Demand Quotes

“I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.”
“Make preparations in advance ... you never have trouble if you are prepared for it.”
“A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.”
“Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal.”
“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.”

Source : Ben Casnocha, Reid Hoffman (2012). “The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career”, p.83, Random House
“I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation's history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity.”

Source : "RPT-UPDATE 2-Citing U.S. values, Yellen says greatly concerned by rise in economic inequality". www.reuters.com. October 17, 2014.
“A gentleman can never have too many bow ties.”
“Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the world were torn and riven. Elsewhere the last of the old growth the last of the world's own garment were ripped away. It was in this time, now, that the mother of us all was stripped naked and left to die in shame of her children, she who had been robed in glory like this, adorned like this. I bent my head upon the roots and wept, sorrowing for the trees.”

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