"Because we humans find stories such fascinating things, itâ€™s all too easy to get interested in the story for its own sake, and lose sight of the purpose for which we set out to use the story."

-- Steve Denning

#Sight Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.”

Source : Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions”, p.41, Рипол Классик
“Once you go alien, you really do never go back.”

Source : Gini Koch (2010). “Touched by an Alien”, p.119, Penguin
“I long ago observed that the real beauty of the sound comes from the generosity of the heart.”
“I'd be the outsider gal who undergoes a makeover in the end [in the 'The Breakfast Club' ].”
“It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.”
“Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty. (10)”

Source : SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”
“And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.”
“In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.”

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