"We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present."

-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#Risk Quotes #Myopic Quotes #Carpet Quotes

“The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you.”
“Education is the best means-probably the only means-by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity about each other's behavior and intentions. It is the means by which Russians and Americans can come to understand each others' aspirations for peace and how the satisfactions of everyday life may be achieved.....”
“Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.”
“We must recognize that the attempt to set forth the temporal course commonly referred to as the "evolution of mankind" is merely an attempt to structure events for convenient accessibility. Consequently, we must exclude from our discussion as far as possible such misleading notions as "development" and "progress."”

Source : Jean Gebser (1985). “The Ever-Present Origin”
“I'm always driven by something. It doesn't matter what it is, it could be the smallest task or something huge.”
“Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.”
“Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.”
“Clearly, we were hoping to get some competitive proposals, but the reality is there are only a small number of firms that would be interested and have the wherewithal to bid.”

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