"I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either."

-- Alice Walker

#Unique Quotes #Self Quotes #Role Models Quotes

“This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.”
“The walls are white, the track is grey, the grass is green, and the sky is blue...your job is to keep them all where they belong.”
“The realization that reason and anti-reason, sense and nonsense, design and chance, consciousness and unconsciousness, belong together as necessary parts of a whole - this was the central message of Dada.”
“The pressure for conformity is enormous. I have experienced it in editorsâ€™ rejection of submitted papers, based on venomous criticism of anonymous referees. The replacement of impartial reviewing by censorship will be the death of science.”
“Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.”
“We never get to see that our kid is capable of solving problems on her own. We never start to build up the faith that they can actually do it.”
“I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.”
“I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.”

Source : William Boyd, John Costello (1991). “Ten days to destiny: the secret story of the Hess peace initiative and British efforts to strike a deal with Hitler”, William Morrow & Co

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