Pg 71 Quotes

#1. Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#2. It is the rarest thing ... that gets preserved, that does not get erased, broken down, transformed.

Anthony Doerr

#3. There is no escaping from power, that it is always-already present constituting that very thing which one attempts to counter it with.

Michel Foucault

#4. When you voice your disagreement, begin by talking about what you have in common with the person you are arguing with. Too often we rush to judgment, race to argue, and overlook all the common ground we share.

Matthew Kelly

#5. Successfully to accomplish any task it is necessary not only that you should give it the best there is in you, but that you should obtain for it the best there is in those under your guidance.

George Washington Goethals

#6. When the time comes for you to make a change or to grow, the universe will make you so uncomfortable you will eventually have no choice.

Iyanla Vanzant

#7. She is close enough to me that I can see her, because even now there is the outward sign of visible light, even at night in this parking lot on the outskirts of Algoe. After we kiss, our foreheads touch as we stare at each other. Yes, I can see her almost perfectly in this cracked darkness.

John Green

#8. What you put out is what you get back, and the reason so many are so short of money is that they put little or nothing out

Stuart Wilde

#9. She began to teeter as she walked, fell almost daily, bumped into things or, at the very least, dropped objects. She was in the grip of an insuperable longing to fall. She lived in a constant state of vertigo. 'Pick me up,' is the message of a person who keeps falling.

Milan Kundera

#10. But you do not think much about the stars. They are always there. Look at them when you have a moment.

Mary Jane Ward