"The memoirist, like the poet and the novelist, must engage the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it's the wisdom-or rather the movement toward it-that counts."

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Vivian Gornick

#Writing Quotes #Engagement Quotes #Movement Quotes

“Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.”
“May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.”

Source : "The emerging police state: resisting illegitimate authority". Book by William Moses Kunstler, p. 96, 2004.
“Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.”

Source : "Peerless: A Radically Decentralized Digital Monetary Framework". billdembski.com. November 23, 2016.
“There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron; it belongs to the waiting list.”
“Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.”
“I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearance to the way I talk and everything.”
“When I was studying in secondary school, a teacher recommended me during a singing contest. I took the championship because of my voce that I take proud of. Then I thought maybe my voice is not bad,then I wanted to be a singer.”

Source : Source: bigbangsites.blogspot.com
“I wonder what art is about and I'm not sure that what I do is art because I'm a photographer, not an artist. But whatever you do, the secret is to do what you think you ought to do, and do the hell out of it.”

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