"Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past, present, and future."

-- Russell L. Ackoff

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“A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.”
“You have to play the character in the best way you know how and do what you need to do in order to bring that character to life and not worry about the millions of people that you may be disappointing!”
“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”

Source : Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.211, Shambhala Publications
“You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.”
“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”
“Growing up in the social media world, it's tough. Your face changes, you get older, your face fills out, and you fall into liking makeup and different stuff like that. And for people saying that, for the most part - it would kind of hurt my feelings when you haven't done anything. You just kind of have to keep being yourself and move forward with what you love.”

Source : Source: www.seventeen.com
“I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance.”
“The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.”

Source : "Running on Empty: Meditations for Indispensable Women" by Ellen Sue Stern, (p. 235), 1992.

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