"When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way of finding the eye."

-- Bernadette Roberts

#Eye Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Storm Quotes

“Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders sometimes if science will not grind to a stop in an assemblage of walled-in hermits, each mumbling to himself words in a private language that only he can understand.”
“If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.”
“Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.”
“I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.”
“There are huge creative advantages in having huge chunks of time when no one can find you. Emails and phones have diluted the experience of travel.”
“And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.”

Source : Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”
“It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people and quoted by the foolish.”

Source : Jill Johnston (1973). “Lesbian nation: the feminist solution”, Simon & Schuster
“The number one piece of advice I would share is to recruit a mentor. Find someone you admire who is at least one generation older, and has no direct authority over you. Lack of context and perspective can cost you months and years--with a bad career choice, an unwise relocation, short-term negotiating posture, and, generally speaking, sophomoric thinking.”

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