"The key to making things understandable is to understand what itâ€™s like not to understand."

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Source : "Understanding In The Age Of Also Talking With Richard Saul Wurman". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. March 1, 2000.

Richard Saul Wurman

“People can try to eat the correct things, take the correct amount of exercise, worry less and so forth. But in the end fate or destiny is seen as taking its toll. People die, to use a commonly used phrase, 'when their number's up'.”

Source : Peter Dickens (1992). “Society and Nature: Towards a Green Social Theory”, p.161, Temple University Press
“I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.”

Source : "Tammy Blanchard: 'Not uptight about anything'". Interview with Mark Kennedy, www.deseretnews.com. July 12, 2012.
“I try to express with the camera what the story is, to get to the heart of the story with picture. In battle I look at things first in terms of people, second in terms of strategies or casualties... To tell a story, you don't photograph one hundred dead civilians to prove there were one hundred dead civilians. You photograph one dead civilian with an expression on his face that says, This is what it's like if you're a dead civilian in Vietnam.”
“Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun.”
“Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.”
“I had never done any sort of yoga before, and this epiphany was a little more esoteric. I walked into the yoga room and there was a voice from my soul that said out loud, This is it! I just knew. I just knew in that moment - I couldn't even straighten my legs. I couldn't sit cross-legged on the floor. I couldn't put my legs up the wall in the most gentle, restorative yoga pose, and yet, I knew.”
“I threw out all the bath water, and there was no baby there.”
“The best marketing is education.”

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