"One doesn't have to be a Marxist to be awed by the scale and success of early-20th-cent ury efforts to transform strong-willed human beings into docile employees."

-- Gary Hamel

#Strong Quotes #Effort Quotes #Scales Quotes

“I'm not saying I'm glad it happened. Not exactly. But I'm not sorry to be the person I am today, and to have the life I have now. Even though it's not what I thought I wanted for my future, a year ago, it is what I want now. ...”
“Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work.”
“For just once in my life, I'd like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who's got an attitude about the way I look.”

Source : Barbara Neely (2015). “Blanche Among the Talented Tenth: A Blanche White Mystery”, p.12, Brash Books, LLC
“You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you canâ€™t use that as a reason to give up or stop.”

Source : Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.121, Penguin
“Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that's okay, contraception is okay.Â Itâ€™s not okay. Itâ€™s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.”
“Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.”
“The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.”

Source : Polly Horvath (2008). “My One Hundred Adventures”, p.10, Schwartz & Wade
“I was ten years old when my first Vogue cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.”

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