Silence is exhilarating at first—as noise is—but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.
~ Edward Hoagland
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Fear →
Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
~ Francis Chan
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Growth →
There’s a world of difference between insisting on someone’s doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.
~ Fred Rogers
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Creativity →
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
~ Anthony Jay
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Knowledge →
A great challenge of life: Knowing enough to think you are right, but not knowing enough to know you are wrong.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Sight →
I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
~ Agnes Varda
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Travel →
People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you’re going to see just about all that you can handle.
~ Paul Auster
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Wisdom →
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
~ Bill Nye
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Leadership →
Leading into a world of unknowns, a world where you don’t have the answer, the best you can do is to ask better questions, as well as help those around you to do the same.
~ Pascal Finette
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The future →
To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up. Do not be misled into passivity either by false security (they don’t mean me) or by despair (there’s nothing we can do.) Each of us must find our work and do it.
~ Audre Lorde
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