"When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal."

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Source : "Imagination Becomes Reality" by Janet Echelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.

Janet Echelman

#Ideas Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Vulnerable Quotes

“This is my calling, this is why I was put on this earth-to make a difference in people's lives.”
“If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.”
“I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.”
“While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we remained keen on each other and eventually married in 2002.”
“I have no private life, as I am constantly under police surveillance.”
“Perhaps I should say that in general there are three solutions to such a situation. I mean not only in Holland, but everywhere where there are minority groups: in America, in Vietnam with the Chinese. Everywhere there is the same problem. But there are fundamentally three, actually only two possible solutions. A possible solution is that the despised minority is able to establish its own state somewhere else. The other solution is a higher or lesser degree of assimilation. And the third possibility, which is not a solution at all, is the permanence of the tension and conflict over time.”

Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu
“Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.”
“But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.”

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