"One of the greatest sources of problems in our society arises from people having loads of wrong theories in their heads - often theories that are critical of others - that they won't test by speaking to the relevant people about them. Instead, they talk behind people's backs, which leads to pervasive misinformation."

-- Ray Dalio

#Life Quotes #People Quotes #Growth Quotes

“I remember so many times taking classes and feeling completely discouraged because I felt like I wasn't getting it and I couldn't understand. I kept working at it and I kept going back to class, and I wouldn't let myself get intimidated or get scared away, and it really does pay off.”

Source : "Playing Dead". Interview with Philiana Ng, www.backstage.com. January 10, 2011.
“People don't want to be bothered, if they're not being pressured to change. You have to push people. You have to be the agitator that makes the pearl.”
“There was a rock in front of my hut, a tall, gray rock. By its looks it seemed to be well-disposed toward me...”
“I've got little ankles and a bit of a belly, so it makes me look rather an egg on legs.”
“He's the best physician who knows the worthlessness of most medicines.”
“That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.”
“Those who spend their strength in field and factory would rather hear that their emancipation is bound to come than that it is something to be hazardously purchased by struggle and sacrifice.”
“Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will â€“ that is all, really, education is about, should be about.”

Source : Fay Weldon (2011). “Letters to Alice”, p.54, Hachette UK

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