"The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?"

-- David Attenborough

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“Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.”

Source : "The doughnut dimension" by Charles Handy, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2005.
“And once again I believe that nothing that's important really becomes lost. We just delude ourselves, thinking that we own the things, the moments and the others. Still with me are all the dead persons who I loved, all the friends who turned away, all the happy days that faded. I lost nothing but the illusion that everything could be mine forever.”
“I remember one of the first things Helmut Newton on one of his last shoots, in 2004, said was that he couldn't believe how thin I was. He was like, "Whatever happened to women?" He also made me wear rubber nipples. It was amazing to be in a situation where you have to create but you don't feel any pressure. He had such confidence that it made things really easy. There's a natural sort of process of something coming to life, which I really liked. It was like, "We're here, and let's make you lay on a bed of nails." But it didn't seem contrived or overly thought-out. It was easy.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.”
“It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.”
“I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.”
“Do not wait for a change of environment before you act; get a change of environment by action.”
“Come up, April, though the valley, / In your robes of beauty drest, / Come and wake your flowery children / From their wintry beds of rest ...”

Source : Phoebe Cary (1882). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”

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