"It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray."

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Source : Roger Von Oech (1986). “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative”, Harper Perennial

Roger von Oech

#Important Quotes #Exploration Quotes #Willing Quotes

“All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.”
“Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology”

Source : "Clifford Geertz on Ethnography and Social Construction" by Gary A. Olson, Journal of Advanced Composition 11.2, hypergeertz.jku.at. 1991.
“I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army.”
“The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility.”

Source : Susan Orlean (2009). “The Orchid Thief”, p.133, Random House
“All men are liars. All women are liars, too.”
“Psychiatry causes so much death”
“We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.”
“Nothing else you do will ever matter as much as helping people establish an eternal relationship with God.”

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