"The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it."

-- Jack Welch

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Essence Quotes

“The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.”
“Why do I love writing? I can be who I want, do what I want, hurt who I want, and make the world over, just the way I'd love to have it.”
“I have come to see that our problem is that we don't know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life uncluttered by feelings of anxiety, rage, doubt, and sadness. But happiness is something entirely different. It's the ability to receive the pleasant without grasping and the unpleasant without condemning.”
“If it wasn't for good," my mother says, "we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the monsters would have gotten us or we would have killed each other off with greed and jealousy and anger. So we have to believe in good. We have to look for the good in ourselves.”
“I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground.”
“I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.”
“Freedom of speech implies the world isnâ€™t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.”
“The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.”

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