Quotes
Authors
Bill Lee

"I was always matching wits with authority. Pondering over my past and present hassles, I began to wonder why my life had taken the direction it had. What cosmic forces had led me to this precise moment that saw me, once again, dancing on the rim of the volcano? The answers started to come to me as my life flashed before my eyes. I think it all started when I was arrested as a pyromaniac."

Source : Bill Lee, Richard Lally (2007). “The Wrong Stuff”, p.2, Crown Archetype

Bill Lee

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“It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.”
“Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouse's perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse. Only then can we give encouragement. With verbal encouragement, we are trying to communicate, "I know. I care. I am with you. How can I help?" We are trying to show that we believe in him and in his abilities. We are giving credit and praise.”
“Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.”
“We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.”
“Thank you,â€ he was whispering, â€œthank you, thank you.â€¦â€ And then he was kissing my face, every inch of it he could find, wiping away the tears and soot, chanting my name.”
“There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.”
“Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!”
“I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.”

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