"One reason we can hardly bear to remain silent is that it makes us feel so helpless. We are so accustomed to relying upon words to manage and control others. If we are silent, who will take control? God will take control, but we will never let him take control until we trust him. Silence is intimately related to trust."

-- Richard J. Foster

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“Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.”
“My philosophy is: Everybody needs to look out for everybody else.”
“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathingâ€”they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
“Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top. The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long.”
“I do find it a bit disconcerting when your name becomes a brand.”
“I will find a way out or make one.”
“Although a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be achieved through bad service alone. Ideally, service is invisible. You notice it only when something goes wrong.”

Source : "Control" by Dana Spiotta, www.newyorker.com. November 21, 2011.
“I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.”

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