"I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises."

-- Abigail Johnson

#Commitment Quotes #Goal Quotes #Progress Quotes

“Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.”
“Those who desire to remain intoxicated by Reality do not require artificial intoxicants. Indulging in false things will only increase falsity, for every direction is indeed infinite. Those who desire the truly genuine Thing proceed of themselves with great intensity so as to progress in their sadhana.”
“We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.”
“Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.”

Source : Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2001). “Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books”, p.12, Beacon Press
“Spaces of liberation are, in a certain way, some kind of social spaces where people can not only get together and think about something else, but also act together. If you are thinking about an elemental solidarity, you are thinking about people acting together and taking decisions together, and thereby beginning to think about what sort of society they want to create. So, there is a need for liberated spaces; that is really difficult.”
“Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.”
“My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out donâ€™t care that they are naked. There is something burning in there.”
“My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.”

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