"A person of â€œgood characterâ€ was one who acted in accordance with the expectations of his community"

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Sheena Iyengar

#Character Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Community Quotes

“The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.”
“Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.”
“The more I trust my intuition and act on its wisdom, the more extraordinary my life becomes.”
“I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.”
“Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.”
“I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.”
“I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.”

Source : "Chairman of Biocon, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw". "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. September 4, 2004.
“So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.”

Source : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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