"Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit."

“Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.”

“Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show.”

Source : Song: Fruit Tree

“False shame only is harmful.”

“The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire.”

Source : "Black Like Him: Obama's Narrow Path to Reelection" by Charles P. Pierse, www.esquire.com. July 23, 2015.

“I'll always be a Golden Eagle”

“Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It is a challenge for them to turn those instincts off for the good of the team, but that is exactly what is required.”

“People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.”

“Here we don't pray for the weak, we prey on the weak.”

Source : Teresa Mummert (2014). “Pretty Little Things”, p.60, Teresa Mummert