"We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it is making the effort to interact without knowing all the rules, improvising certain situations, which allows us to grow."

-- Mary Catherine Bateson

#Knowing Quotes #People Quotes #Effort Quotes

“Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.”
“There is price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good the bad and the ugly when trying something out of the box.”
“Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat's ears in the sun, indigo shadow, and the bleeding hearts, so female in shape it was a surprise they'd not long since been rooted out. There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.”
“I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.”
“You want to hire #â€Ž entrepreneurs , people who are natural problem solvers -- the ones who see opportunity when most see impossibility.”
“I am running for re-election no matter who runs.”
“You've no fear of heights," puffed the girl. "None," I said. "I've heard that about you.”

Source : Kenneth Oppel (2005). “Skybreaker”, HarperCollins
“If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.”

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