"We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed."

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Source : Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.97, John Wiley & Sons

Parker J. Palmer

“Developing a prototype early is the number one goal for our designers, or anyone else who has an idea, for that matter. We don't trust it until we can see it and feel it.”
“I'm the father of four daughters.”
“I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a child - you're either a model or you play basketball.”
“A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.”
“When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Without a customer, you don't have a business - all you have is a hobby.”
“Most of my critics don't even listen to me; they are clueless. They just go to Web sites that report what I say out of context.”
“Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.”

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