"We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps."

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Paula Rego

#World Quotes #Way Quotes #Stories Quotes

“In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.”
“The important thing is to not walk alone, but to rely on each other as brothers and sisters”
“We, all of us, are being called to do something unprecedented. We are being called to think about "everything that is," for we now know that everything is interrelated and that the well-being of each is connected to the well-being of the whole. This suggests a "planetary agenda" for all the religions, all the various fields of expertise.”
“Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.”
“I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.”
“Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.”

Source : Quoted in James B. Simpson, Contemporary Quotations (1964)
“When leaders are willing to talk through their own decision-making process, making visible that values are an important consideration, this sends a powerful signal to employees.”
“The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.”

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