Donella Meadows Quotes
Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.
Donella Meadows
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
Garry Moore
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As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn't have any power, really, as a kid.
Carl Hagelin
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J. G. Ballard
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I've used a stylist twice, and that was when I didn't have time to go shopping or pick up an outfit for a photo shoot. I think you should dress yourself, have fun with it - it's only clothes.
Imelda May
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
Barry Unsworth
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
Ingmar Bergman
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Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.
Karen Salmansohn
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
Wang Jianlin
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
T. Boone Pickens
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
Bear Grylls
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You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.
Keith Miller
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I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress true talent. People can be destroyed; they can be bent, distorted, and completely crippled . . . In spite of all the poetry, all the philosophy to the contrary, we are not really masters of our fate.
Katherine Anne Porter
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It's a lot harder to write a story that's compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room.
Peter Paige
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Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.
Lao Tzu
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Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.
Donella Meadows
