"The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled."

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Paulo Coelho

#Bridges Quotes #Gaps Quotes #Storytelling Quotes

“With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.”
“People grow up by living.”
“Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task - people change, they drift apart, they move on.”

Source : "My Journey With Farrah" by Alana Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2009.
“I love the smell of estrogen in the morning”
“There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shriveling up the reality in which one is lodged.”

Source : "Encounters: Two Studies in the Sociology of Interaction". Book by Erving Goffman, p. 38, 1971.
“In my first meeting with somebody, I kind of say, "What are your expectations?" And there are some people who say, "I just want to be fair," so then we have to qualify what that means. But when somebody comes in and says, "I just want to nail him. I just want to exact as much punishment as I possibly can." Well, that might be a case where I say, "We may not be the right firm for you."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Dear Complete and Utter Stranger, The first thing that I have to say is that I hate oatmeal. I really hate it. And you know what? If you like oatmeal at all? I mean even the tiniest bit? I mean, say you were lost in the Himalayas, right, and you hadn't eaten anything except a Mars Bar for about seven years, right, and you're really cold and your fingers are all dropping off, right, and you look behind this rock, and there's this bowl of oatmeal? Say you would even think about eating the oatmeal? Well, JUST DON'T BOTHER WRITING TO ME, OKAY?”
“Some people want to feel comfortable when they're performing; I'm kind of the opposite.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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