"The engineering is secondary to the vision."

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Source : Cynthia Ozick (2017). “Art and Ardor”, p.279, Atlantic Books

Cynthia Ozick

#Engineering Quotes #Vision Quotes

“Trusting yourself is realizing yourself. Trusting life is realizing yourself as life. This is an invitation to our thinking minds to open in trust. We can trust that there is a knowing that is out of the realm of thoughts or emotions or circumstances. When we deeply trust, our minds open to discover what is true, regardless of what we are feeling. The deepest trust is a by-product of this true realization.”
“In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide us? It is the dog, you know, that wags the tail--not the tail that wags the dog.”
“It's actually true that I keep myself going by constantly promising myself that in response for the hard work I will be allowed to do some more hard work later on.”
“I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional. She's a survivor.”
“As soon as I ended up being incarcerated, I said, you know, this is not the life for me.”
“Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.”
“The future of life on earth depends on our ability to take action. Many individuals are doing what they can, but real success can only come if there's a change in our societies and our economics and in our politics. I've been lucky in my lifetime to see some of the greatest spectacles that the natural world has to offer. Surely we have a responsibility to leave for future generations a planet that is healthy, inhabitable by all species”

Source : Lance Secretan (2004). “Inspire! What Great Leaders Do”, p.93, John Wiley & Sons
“I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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