"The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But in fact, there's no such thing. There's no self without other people. There's no self without sunlight. There's no self without dew. And water. And bees to pollinate the food that we eat...So the idea of behaving in a way that doesn't acknowledge those reciprocal relationships is not really freedom, it's indulgence."

-- Peter Coyote

#Nature Quotes #Independent Quotes #Self Quotes

“Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.”
“Hey, I'm just a singer in a fabulous dress, with great hair and a beard!”

Source : "Meet the Bearded Drag Queen Who’s Taking Europe by Storm" by Mariah Blake, www.motherjones.com. May 9, 2014.
“The best stuff happens when you take a chance. When you risk something and do the thing that the other people are taking a chance on, on a network kind of level, they will be rewarded. You know, risk-reward.”
“If I can avoid doing freelance work, I prefer to. Not just because it takes me away from drawing comics, but also because it's just annoying having to deal with art editors, and having to read people's articles or books or whatever.”
“I am so close, I may look distant.”
“While the tendency to generate ideas is rather natural, the path to making them happen is tumultuous.”

Source : Scott Belsky (2010). “Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality”, p.9, Penguin
“People say 'I love Artists', but what they really know about Artists? They've ever thought about sharing the real madness with us? I believe those extreme passions/emotions in me separated from the real world is the sauce to pull out the inspirations out of me that touch the core of people's hearts, which is usually wandering about deep inside of you unconsciously covered with the social taboo called 'common sense'.”
“most of us persist in regarding leadership as synonymous with - indeed solely derived from - high position. Perhaps the notion of grass-roots leadership strikes us as too much of an oxymoron; confronted with apparent paradox, our imaginations fail. ... I believe that in the future, our ideas about the nature of leadership will undergo a radical transformation. As the instrumental use of knowledge continues to redefine the nature and purpose of organizations, we will begin to look at those on the front lines for leadership.”

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