"I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political."

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Barbara Kingsolver

#Art Quotes #Political Quotes #Failing Quotes

“Few of us know what we are capable of doing... we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out. Alfred”
“I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least Id know that I tried.”
“With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.”
“We weren’t trying to strike it rich with Firefox. It’s open source and it’s free. We weren’t trying to take over the world; we had kind of modest goals, and it was OK if it failed. We were a lot freer to make risky decisions. If you can afford to do things that way, it’s just so much better. You’re not thinking about venture capitalists or marketing or sales. Just product and users, all day every day.”
“One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.”
“And anyone that calls me a sell-out is just jealous.”
“Reality is an acquired taste.”

Source : Robert Fritz (1996). “Corporate Tides: The Inescapable Laws of Organizational Structure”, p.28, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.”

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