"I wish we could understand the word expert as expressing an attitude of mind which we can all acquire rather than the collecting of information by a special caste. ... Many of us are calling for experts because, acutely conscious of the mess we are in, we want someone to pull us out."

-- Mary Parker Follett

#Attitude Quotes #Mind Quotes #Wish Quotes

“To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.”
“I've taken challenges with the big risk that it can all go wrong. But that's what I like and I'd rather do that than be safe all the time.”
“When I have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but respond to circumstances in an infinite variety of ways.”
“Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable.”
“Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.”
“Dig deeply into the spring of love and partake of it. The supply is infinite.”
“William James used to preach the "will-to-believe." For my part, I should wish to preach the "will-to-doubt." None of our beliefs are quite true; all at least have a penumbra of vagueness and error. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.”
“If in this wide world, teeming with abundant supplies for human want, to thousands of wretched creatures no choice is open, save between starvation and sin, may we not justly say that there is something utterly wrong in the system that permits such things to be?”

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