"As long as we wish for safety, we will have difficulty pursuing what matters."

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Source : Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.57, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Peter Block

#What Matters Quotes #Safety Quotes #Long Quotes

“With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.”
“I want to do the right thing, but often I don't know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come short of what I would like to have done. Yet as the years pass and I see the very world itself, with its oceans and mountains and plains, as something unfinished, a peculiar little satisfaction hunts out the corners of my heart. Sunsets and evening shadows find me regretful at task's undone, but sleep and the dawn and the air of the morning touch me with freshening hopes. Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.”
“A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.”

Source : 1992 Backlash (UK edn), ch.3,'Backlashes Then and Now'.
“Most people think visual information is more important than aural information - like, what's this big deal about sound? And why should I bother to listen, rather than look? And here are the facts: there are blind species, in the backs of the caves, the bottoms of the oceans. It's not essential on planet Earth to be able to see, to be a species. But there are no deaf animal species. You have to be able to hear, or you won't get the information you need in order to survive.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“PRETTY LITTLE LIARS works as a metaphor for our central human experience: we have no way to objectively know about anything, no way to move forward with certainty, and yet move forward we must. We stumble through life, trying to find our own way, not knowing whom to listen to, whom to trust, whom to suspect, what to believe. But in that process we discover our most authentic selves.”
“His letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty.”
“On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, "Melancholia? Ad nauseam.”

Source : "The Orton Diaries". Edited by John Lahr, p. 137, 1986.
“What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.”

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