"My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted."

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Source : Walker Percy (2011). “The Second Coming”, p.66, Open Road Media

Walker Percy

#Mother Quotes #Failing Quotes #Adolescence Quotes

“Nothing is really ours until we share it.”
“Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.”

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“Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All the rest are costs.”
“The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent - level of need. Yet people in the upper middle class - with their excellent health benefits, schools, salaries, retirement plans, nannies and private afterschool programs - have journeyed so far from that level of need that, it often seems to me, they literally cannot hear what resonates with the middle class. That creates a problematic blind spot for those who write, edit or produce what comes to be known about our politicians and their policies.”
“Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power.”
“If you would understand this secret, you must first understand the distinction between training an animal and educating one. Trained animals are relatively easy to turn out. All that is required is a book of instructions, a certain amount of bluff and bluster, something to use for threatening and punishing purposes, and of course the animal. Educating an animal, on the other hand, demands keen intelligence, integrity, imagination, and the gentle touch, mentally, vocally, and physically.”
“One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.”
“Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.”

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