"Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers."

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Source : Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.6, Grove Press

Mary Catherine Bateson

#Goal Quotes #Blinkers Quotes

“If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.”
“Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.”
“I think that, on some level, everybody lives vicariously through couples who are getting married.”
“We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.”

Source : Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I'm lucky enough to split my time between the field and the office. Some land surveyors in larger outfits can work mostly from behind a desk, managing many field crews at once.”

Source : "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.
“The person seeing perfection is the Master.”

Source : Baird T. Spalding (1996). “Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East”, Devorss Publications
“The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.”

Source : William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.233, Hachette UK
“I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a tougher time surviving, and telling their story.”

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