"What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great."

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Source : Miles Franklin (2012). “My Career Goes Bung”, p.28, Allen & Unwin

Miles Franklin

#Autobiography Quotes

“the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.”
“Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.”
“There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.”
“We're not a homogeneous party, anymore than the Republicans are. But we are a party that I think has a plan to take us forward.”

Source : "David Axelrod and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa defend President Obama's economic record". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 2, 2012.
“You need to begin where people are. You can't punt ideas or innovations in from the 40 yard line. And yes, the work should feel so collaborative that it should feel like the end result belongs to everyone. Your best moment as a consultant is when your client plays your idea back to you as their idea. Your job: to nod sagely and say, "that's an excellent idea.".”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.”
“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I canâ€™t be loved as I am.”
“What we often take to be family values--the work ethic, honesty, clean living, marital fidelity, and individual responsibility--are in fact social, religious, or cultural values. To be sure, these values are transmitted by parents to their children and are familial in that sense. They do not, however, originate within the family. It is the value of close relationships with other family members, and the importance of these bonds relative to other needs.”

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