"No one can manage you if you don't give them permission to do so. But if you are interested in accomplishing as much as you are capable of, then I believe there are good reasons to grant that permission."

-- David Maister

#Inspiring Quotes #Believe Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”
“I'm trying to be myself more and more. The more confidence you have in yourself... the more you realize that this is you, and life isn't long. So get on with it!”
“The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.”

Source : Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.112, Crossing Press
“I can't do impressions.”
“Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.”

Source : "Dear Austen". Book by Nina Bawden, 2005.
“Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.”
“As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.”
“I don't live in Hollywood. I don't have celebrities as friends. I like them, but I don't pal around with them. I just live in the Midwest, a real normal world.”

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