"I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past."

-- Carson McCullers

#Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Sideways Quotes

“I hate shopping. I don't go shopping. If I do, I run in and out.”
“Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately, this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact, this planet is more powerful than the human species.”
“It's nothing short of a whole new brain... animated by a different form of thinking and a new approach to life.”
“I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work.”
“Communicating and celebrating the times when individuals have made values-based decisions is, of course, empowering and can provide role models. But perhaps more importantly, it removes the sense of futility that often prevents employees from speaking up.”
“How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and finally superstitions.”
“Effective as perspective is... it becomes a deadening influence on an artist's natural way of seeing things once it is accepted as a system - as a mechanical formula.”
“... you're not supposed to cuss when you're an old lady, and just when there's so much more to cuss about ...”

Source : Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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