"It is easy to follow, but it is uninteresting to do easy things. We find out about ourselves only when we take risks, when we challenge and question."

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Magdalena Abakanowicz

#Challenges Quotes #Risk Quotes #Easy Quotes

“The burial of feelings has begun.”

Source : Mark Strand (2007). “New Selected Poems”, Knopf
“Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years shown a shred of compassion for sympathy or kindness without calculating how it would return to your advantage. You have tortured and killed without regret or hesitation; you have betrayed and intrigued and gloried in your treachery. You are a cess-pit of moral filth.”
“Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come from out luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis.”
“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
“My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.”
“In the war against breast cancer, we have the ability to arm ourselves with knowledge and education is a powerful tool. By taking action and doing something positive, fear is replaced with hope.”
“Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!”
“Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.”

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