Gjelina Abbot Quotes & Sayings

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny. — James Carroll

Let's face it, who among us wouldn't take a pill or potion that would make us better at our job? Goodness knows, we abuse substances for just about everything in our personal lives; why not in our professional lives as well? — Graydon Carter

If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much. — Mason Cooley

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think. — George Bernard Shaw

If a man successful in business expends a part of his income in things of no real use, while the poor employed by him pass through difficulties in getting the necessaries of life, this requires his serious attention. — John Woolman

I just wanted to say things that women wanted to say, but were afraid to. — Sylvia Robinson

An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes. — M. Scott Peck

The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies. — Stephen Jay Gould