"What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All of us begin somewhere. Though I suppose the truth is that we begin more than once; we begin many times. Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done."

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Source : Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

Cameron Dokey

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“You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.”
“For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.”
“I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.”
“I'm so happy, I can hardly spit.”
“I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.”

Source : History of Europe (1935) p. vii
“How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.”
“Individual learning is a necessary but insufficient condition for organizational learning.”

Source : Chris Argyris, Donald A. Schön (1978). “Organizational learning: a theory of action perspective”, Addison-Wesley
“Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.”

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