"To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots."

-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Education Quotes #Roots Quotes #People Quotes

“If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.”
“Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident.”

Source : "Blow-Up Brian De Palma & Taryn Simon in conversation". www.artforum.com. 2012.
“Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.”

Source : "The Dark Side of the Universe". Astronomy and Geophysics, April 2007.
“Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words and not one of them can save me.”

Source : Naomi Shihab Nye (1995). “Words under the words: selected poems”, The Eighth Mountain Press
“Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital .”

Source : "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.
“Even without comparing ourselves to the world's greatest, we set such high standards for ourselves that neither we nor anyone else could ever meet them-and nothing is more destructive to creativity than this. We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection. It's about a process, a journey. The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after year. The master is the one who is willing to try, and fail, and try again, for as long as he or she lives.”

Source : George Leonard (1991). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment”, Plume Books
“I can't speak for everybody, I think, for me, I will not be defined by the lyrics of my song. I am a man who does music. It's like clothes don't make the man, the man makes the clothes. It's, it's like that song don't make me, I make the song.”
“It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.”

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