"Some of the commercial work I do is helping people to improve their presentations and add some design thinking. There are so many amazing things in science, and such great data, which can often be locked away. It's in the minds of these amazing practitioners, who can't necessarily express what they want in a visual way."

-- David Mccandless

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Design Quotes

“Others have promised and failed. But God has promised and succeeded. He loves you with an unfailing love.”
“It is apparently vital that we should be in the dark about ourselves not to be clear about our intentions, fears, and hopes. There is a stubborn effort in us to set up a compact screen between consciousness and the self.”
“History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.”
“In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.”
“How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?”

Source : Edgar Lee Masters (2007). “Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.166, Prestwick House Inc
“I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face.”
“Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at all.”
“History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a vigil, if they write a letter to their local newspaper. Anything they do, however small, becomes part of a much, much larger sort of flow of energy. And when enough people do enough things, however small they are, then change takes place.”

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