"If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields."

-- Stephen Jay Gould

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“As a matter of fact I could beat you two with both my arms and my legs tied. I'll roll down this ramp and score myself a 7-10 idiot split!”
“Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.”
“You can't bank on the outcome.”
“A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.”

Source : "Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership". Book by Lee Bolman and Terrence E. Deal, 1991.
“80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can't afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage.”
“The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks of us a welcoming spirit to greet all that life presents to us with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart. We can bow to both beauty and suffering, to our entanglements and confusion, to our fears and to the injustices of the world. Honoring the truth in this way is the path to freedom.”
“You cannot do silhouettes in fantasy. Ah, no, you must be faithful. It is, the art, a, what you call, paradox. It is always that you must be simple, and then, if you are simple, you will stimulate the imagination of the observer.”
“Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, weâ€™re depriving them of happiness as adults?”

Source : "How to Land Your Kid in Therapy" by Lori Gottlieb, www.theatlantic.com. July 2011.

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