"Every child has the capacity to be everything." — Doris Lessing

"Every child has the capacity to be everything."

— Doris Lessing

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201 Quotes by Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing has 201 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to…
When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being…
She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every…
A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat…
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I…
What matters most is that we learn from living.
Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist:…
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group…
Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was…

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I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had… — Tyra Banks
Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives. — Gerry Adams
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. — Warren G. Bennis
We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are… — Andrew Bernstein
As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely… — Annie Besant
Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological. — Kathryn Bigelow
I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of… — Theodore Bikel
In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. — David Blaine
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. — Omar N. Bradley
I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to… — Berkeley Breathed
I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of -… — Warren Buffett
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is… — Frederick Buechner

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