"Theory can blind observation."

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Source : Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.34, Harvard University Press

Carol Gilligan

#Design Quotes #Blind Quotes #Theory Quotes

“The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.”
“I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.”
“Cultures that don't laugh at themselves are cults.”
“The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.”
“The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair”
“Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face.”
“Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.”
“Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation.”

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