"One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little."

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Source : Kenneth Koch (1978). “I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home”, Random House Incorporated

Kenneth Koch

#Attitude Quotes #Fall Quotes #Maturity Quotes

“The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is ...”
“To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs thrive, and fosters a power that is derived from respect, not rules. In other words, the successful companies will be the ones that put quality of life first. Do this and the rest - quality of product, productivity of workers, profits for all - will follow.”
“It feels kind of strange knowing that I rule the whole planet of Naboo and I'm only thirteen. At first, my faceâ€”because it was really whiteâ€”was a bit of a shock. But when the whole costume was put together and the headdress was put on, I really felt proud, like a Queen.”
“When you're pregnant, people feel like they can come up and give you unsolicited advice. When I was nine months pregnant, this one woman came up and she said, I have one word for you: epidural. And I was like, Oh my God, thanks. But we already picked a name.”
“There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.”
“If you have a lot of textural stuff happening in music you get called shoegaze, or whatever, and then it becomes about the sound and not about the songs.”
“When you get money you're always a target because there's always somebody who needs money out there.”
“I want to be simple. I think that we try - and we think when we grow up - that we have the truth, because we experience and stuff. But that bullsh*t actually.”

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