"We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isnâ€™t encouragedâ€”it is barely tolerated."

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Source : "The Surprising Power of Beautiful Questions". Interview with Scott Goodson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2014.

Warren Berger

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“In old grimy streets, in isolated and decaying houses, sometimes far from the Vieux Carre, in little used and secluded cemeteries, there still sluggishly circulates the ebbing blood of the past, of a vigorous and vividly hued past.”
“It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.”
“When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms, thinking of nothing, cramming the black honey of summer into my mouth; all day my body accepts what it is. In the dark creeks that run by there is this thick paw of my life darting among the black bells, the leaves; there is this happy tongue.”
“As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact.”
“I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!”

Source : William Gaddis (1975). “J R”, Random House
“Not only was Dan Cooper likely an alias, but many people suspected at the time were people living under assumed names. The '50s and '60s were a time when some people were desperate to leave their lives. They felt trapped in their marriages or their jobs, and they were seeking freedom. And one of the ways to do that, because technology wasn't advanced as it is today, was just to take over somebody's name.”

Source : "Will Don Draper Become D.B. Cooper? A Skyjacking Expert Weighs In". Interview with Julia Turner, www.slate.com. April 16, 2014.
“In my world, the first thing I reach for is the sound. Technique is Ok, but if you got the technique and I got a good sound, I'll beat you every time. You can play a thousand notes and I can play one note and wipe you out. What I reach for is ... a sound.”
“We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.”

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