"The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool."

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Source : William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.233, Hachette UK

William Least Heat-Moon

#Self Quotes #Fool Quotes #Hindrance Quotes

“I'm a combat diver, I've never done something like this.”
“Know emptiness, Be compassionate.”
“I've got drinks piling up on my desk and a stack of pills I haven't even opened yet!”
“Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.”
“Every brand builder will face a million temptations to obscure, dilute, or confuse his or her brand message. These temptations fall under two general headings: boredom and the desire for growth.”
“Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.”

Source : Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.166, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Any questions?" "Ya why do your drawings suck so bad?”
“That utterance of Jesus, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's," is one of the most revolutionary and history-making utterances that ever fell from those lips divine. That utterance, once and for all, marked the divorcement of church and state. It marked a new era for the creeds and deeds of men.”

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