“I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.”
Source: The Golden Notebook
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Doris Lessing94
British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer … 1919–2013Related quotes
“I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future.”
Frank McCourt book Angela's Ashes
Source: Angela's Ashes
Ma Xiaowei (1959) Chinese politician
Ma Xiaowei (2020) cited in " Wuhan Coronavirus Can Be Infectious Before People Show Symptoms, Official Claims https://www.sciencealert.com/wuhan-coronavirus-can-be-infectious-before-people-show-symptoms-official-claims" on Science Alert, 26 January 2020.
Walter Gilbert (1932) American biochemist
Meditel (1990)
Context: The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints. If you simply have a consensus, it generally stultifies. It fails to see the problems of that consensus and it depends on the existence of critics to break up that iceberg and permit knowledge to develop. This is in fact one of the underpinnings of democratic theory. It is one of the reasons why we believe in notions of free speech and it's one of the great forces in terms of intellectual development.
FM-2030 (1930–2000) author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher, futurist and consultant
"Transhuman FM-2030" http://www.transhuman.org/transhumanfm-2030.htm, transhuman.org
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Source: 1990s and later, Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995), p. 295
Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress
Interview with TalkAsia, November 2007
“Now I am a grandfather, I am very content. I can focus on improving the economy in Taiwan now.”
Chen Shui-bian (1950) Taiwanese politician
After his daughter gave birth to his grandson, October 7, 2002
Pet Phrases, 2002
Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…
Attributed to "Jimmy R." in Days of Healing, Days of Joy (1987) <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Source: link https://books.google.com/books?id=7QNk4eNvS44C&pg=PA175&lpg=PA175&dq=%22days+of+healing+days+of+joy%22+%22jimmy+r%22&source=bl&ots=C-jAUVg8y8&sig=fB9m-eQ1IvtjJV6Ncz8mZ30RRHo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAGoVChMIrYnZyNDlyAIVV_5jCh07uQOs#v=onepage&q=%22days%20of%20healing%20days%20of%20joy%22%20%22jimmy%20r%22&f=false
Terry Eagleton (1943) British writer, academic and educator
Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 2, p. 62