"I think influence is one way to exercise power and that the challenge is whether it is power over or power with. That's the essential shift that I hope can happen in the world."

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Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com

Peter Buffett

#Exercise Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“We do not, after all, simply have experience; we are entrusted with it. We must do something--make something--with it. A story, we sense is the only possible habitation for the burden of our witnessing.”
“I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.”
“I force myself to think of anything but the one thing that I'm actually always thinking about. And that is so exhausting that I sleep more than I ever have.”

Source : Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.116, Penguin
“Saddam Hussein is not the only deranged dictator who is willing to deprive his people in order to acquire weapons of mass destruction.”
“[People asked me] "Where is your million-dollar shirt?" I'm like, "It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on."”

Source : Source: espn.go.com
“In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life & vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all.”
“I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.”
“Well, on that day I ceased cleansing my body. No more brushing my teeth, no more washing my hair, no baths, no soap, no water. Thirty days of debris build. I stopped shavinâ€™ and I was 18, had a little scraggly beard, really looked like a hippieâ€¦Then two weeks before, I stopped eating any food with nutritional valueâ€¦Then a week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. poop, piss the whole shot. My pants got crusted up.”

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