"When the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they "lead" social development and provide direction for social change."

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Fred Polak

#Development Quotes #Culture Quotes #Evolution Quotes

“I sometimes compare my brainstorming on paper to the drilling of oil wells. The only way to strike oil is to drill a lot of wells.”

Source : Tom Monaghan, Robert Anderson (1986). “Pizza tiger”, Random House Inc
“War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.”
“If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.”
“Try as you may, you can never defy love.”
“But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.”
“We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.”
“Beauty comes from the happiness within.”
“The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.”

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