"individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur ..."

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Source : Elizabeth Janeway (1981). “Powers of the weak”, William Morrow & Co

Elizabeth Janeway

#Enough Quotes #Individual Quotes #Social Quotes

“Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'”
“A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music.”
“There's a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don't have a rapport, you're going to find the task of photographing it difficult.”
“Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a CD machine: they designed a laser. But we got all sorts of things from a laser which we never remotely imagined, and we're still finding things for a laser to do.”

Source : "My bright idea: Robert Winston". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2010.
“Two people can look at the same thing and see it differently..”
“In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.”
“It was a completely new feeling for meâ€“like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly flying up into my head and making me lose my mind.”
“The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.”

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