"Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about."

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Bernie Siegel

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Stories Quotes

“If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.”
“I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30.”
“When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.”
“I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.”
“Wondering whether Christianity is real is not the same as wondering whether Christianity is true. If you question the truth of Christianity, you can do something tangible about it. You can read books, take a class, or talk to someone about it. But what can you do when you're already convinced it's true but don't experience it as real?”
“Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares.”
“I do not believe in the TRANSFER of an individual. I believe in the TRANSFER of entire villages.”
“Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them.”

Source : "Jim Goldberg: Open See". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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