"To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me."

-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Mean Quotes #Faces Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Spend the rest of your life doing what God prepared you to do.”
“It's fine with me if people want to applaud between movements of a concerto. It doesn't bother me - it's part of performance experience. Sometimes when they applaud if I'm still playing it's not as good, but there's always a way around it. Actually the applause gives me a little rest and chance to stretch, too.”
“This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.”

Source : "The Q&A: Natalie Jeremijenko, thingker". More Intelligent Life Interview, www.economist.com. September 20, 2010.
“Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.”
“I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.”
“He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and... he was a beautiful butterfly!”

Source : Eric Carle (2016). “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, p.24, Penguin
“Anti-intellectualism ... has been present in some form and degree in most societies; in one it takes the form of the administering of hemlock, in another of town-and-gown riots, in another of censorship and regimentation, in still another of Congressional investigations.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.20, Vintage
“I found out that the things that hurt us the most can become the fuel and the catalyst that propel us toward our destiny. It will either make you bitter or it will make you better.”

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