"I'm asking you not to be color blind, but to be color brave."

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Source : "Color blind or color brave?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2014.

Mellody Hobson

#Color Quotes #Brave Quotes #Asking Quotes

“The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.”
“No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.”
“I did 'Little Dorrit' a few years ago; I really love doing period dramas. It's stuff like that I really enjoy watching.”
“I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.”
“There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.”

Source : Agnes Repplier (1898). “Varia”
“I've done four videos for older people under my new brand, Prime Time, and the missing link was yoga. I'm aiming it for older people - people who have never worked out or who are recovering from a surgery and have to start slow. It's easy, you can't get hurt, it's very doable, and I've done it in ten-minute segments.”
“Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objectiveâ€”even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.”

Source : Jeff VanderMeer (2014). “Annihilation: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan
“You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim”

Source : Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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