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Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected romanticizing and the presumption of guessing at the inner thoughts of historical figures. Unfortunately, the result has largely been not to demythologize the past, but merely to dehumanize and depersonalize it. As Roger Mudd has pointed out, 'Too many of today's historians [and biographers] ... seem to have forgotten that the writing of history is a literary art. ↗

— Markham Shaw Pyle

#history #writing #art

Giving Back reframes portraits of philanthropy. ↗

— Valaida Fullwood

#culture #heritage #history #inspirational #philanthropy

..I don't count Jennifer among my mistakes. She had a severe infection and precious little reserve. Nevertheless, I think of her often. Those minutes of terror and confusion I felt standing powerless in her room served as a visceral reminder throughout my training... that the big picture isn't enough in medicine... ↗

— Lisa Sanders

#medicine #art

A shame that these images had become iconic, a tune we were all tired of humming. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#art

He landed on cheap shot, but I knocked him out of the tournament. ↗

— Josh Waitzkin

#learning #martial-arts #tai-chi-chuan #tournament #art

As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar's fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar. ↗

— Christina Westover

#christina-westover #creating #inspirational #ravi-shankar #writing

Until you understand your customers - deeply and genuinely - you cannot hope to serve them ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#customer-care #customers #kindness #rasheed-ogunlaru #service

Dad used to read aloud to us from Dickens and Kipling. My tastes were omnivorous. I read anything I could lay my hands on, but the memory that stays with me is that of my father reading the Jungle Books to us when we were young. Beautiful stories! ↗

— A.B. Guthrie

#childhood-memory #childhood-stories #dickens #interview-transcription #kipling

It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it. The story-teller does but provide him with the stimuli. ↗

— Melville Davisson Post

#storytelling #art

Cuando se nos enseñó a mirar con atención rincones y trozos insignificantes de la ciudad con el ojo fotográfico -una caja de fósforos junto a la rueda de un coche, un pedazo de puerta al sol, una pierna que sube la escalera-, comprendimos que nuestros ojos están ciegos.No nos sirven nada mas que como lazarillos para cruzar las calles, no tropezar con otros y ganarnos la vida. ↗

— Ezequiel Martinez Estrada

#fotografia-arte #art