Misappraisal Quotes

#1. We play at believing ourselves imortal. We delude oursleves in the appraisal of our own works and in our perpetual misappraisal of the works of others. See you at the Nobel, writers say, as one might say: see you in hell.

Roberto Bolano

#2. I've recovered my tenderness by long looking;
I'm a Socrates of small fury.
The waves bends with the fish. I'm taught
As water teaches stone. Believe me, extremest oriole,
I can hear light on a dry day.
The world is where we fling it; I'm leaving where I am.

Theodore Roethke

#3. My teaching is not for self-control, self-discipline. My teaching is for self-awareness, self-transformation.

Osho

#4. The failure of decision makers to grapple with the inner workings of their own minds, and their desire to indulge their gut feelings, made it "quite likely that the fate of entire societies may be sealed by a series of avoidable mistakes committed by their leaders.

Michael Lewis

#5. We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving.

Shane Claiborne

#6. Observe the eyes, for they are the windows to her soul.

Habeeb Akande