"memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time."

-- Fay Weldon

#Memories Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Wishful Thinking Quotes

“Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.”
“"A closed mouth doesn't get fed." Oftentimes, we feel not worthy or we don't want to bother people. We forget to ask for help or what we need or would like. My grandmother used to say that quote to us as kids. It's kind of always stuck with me.”
“And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.”

Source : Peter Ackroyd (1996). “First Light”, p.50, Grove Press
“Today, entrepreneurs are at the forefront of a new era in which organizations put talent at the heart of their business models. And they have no choice. Having grown up surrounded by entrepreneurial freedoms, workers expect flexibility. They insist on collaboration. They demand meaning. Creating an environment that brings out the entrepreneurial instincts in your workforce - a worldview we might call "employeeship"- is key.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“To be without method is deplorable, but to depend entirely on method is worse.”
“It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.”
“My father was my mother's home, the one place that she knew she could be safe. It was all a journey of faith for him, and I think he felt like if you don't find more love and understanding at the end of a journey like that, then you are lost - and if you only find hate and resentment, it will destroy you. I believe that.”
“I'm a person who goes by what I feel like and almost no one can tell me what to do. It's always self-motivation.”

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