"Stories move in circle.Â They donâ€™t move in straight lines.Â So it helps if you listen in circles.Â There are stories inside stories and stories between stories and finding your way through them is as easy and as hard as finding your way home.Â And part of the finding is the getting lost.Â And when youâ€™re lost you start to look around and to listen."

-- Deena Metzger

#Moving Quotes #Home Quotes #Circles Quotes

“Roger Bacon, a disciple of the Arabs, also insisted on the primary necessity of Mathematics, without which no other science can be known; yet by Mathematics it is clear that he meant something very different from what we mean, including under that head even dancing, singing, gesticulation, and performance on musical instruments.”
“A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.”
“There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.”
“When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.”
“Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality.”
“Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess thatâ€™s the job I do.”
“If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer”
“Build something that fixes something people are having a problem with, and you're lined up for great things.”

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