"If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside."

-- Adam Michnik

#Powerful Quotes #Blind Quotes #Deaf Quotes

“I don't believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you.”
“No matter how frustrated you may feel, there is always a way out. In every situation that arises, we choose to be powerful or powerless. It may not always feel like it, but it is a choice. And there are consequences for these choices in terms of the results we get, and the subsequent increase or decrease in our power and influence. If we choose powerlessness, it is often because we doubt there is any other option.”
“Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.”
“You have to stand up for some things in this world.”

Source : Marjory Stoneman Douglas, John Rothchild (1990). “Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River”, p.112, Pineapple Press Inc
“Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.”
“We should be servants of Jesus not masters of people”
“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”

Source : Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984) See Modern Proverbs 41
“We may be aware of small increments of getting older; we may meet an increasing number of people who make us uneasy with their youth; but the fact of being old ourselves comes as a surprise, and is often accompanied by the belief that there has been some mistake.”

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