"The world needs women who stop asking for permission from the principal. Permission to live their lives as they deeply know they often should. I think we still look to authority figures for validation, recognition, permission."

-- Elizabeth Gilbert

#Thinking Quotes #Validation Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I need to go where I'm not comfortable. I think that's the artist's job.”
“If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray that makes people say crazy things and write lazy articles, a serious swarm of flies ends up in my ointment.”
“The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.”

Source : "Galactic Explorer Andrea Ghez". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. October 31, 2006.
“I would rather lose half of our clients than half of our clients' money.”
“Art needs no spur beyond itself.”
“I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.”
“My name is only an anagram of toilets.”
“Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a Speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one.”

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