Able Quote by Fernando Flores

“You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.”

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I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

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“Thirteen Recurrent Domains of Human Concerns: Possible Breakdowns 1. BODY: health, sickness, injury, availability and unavailability for meetings and appointments. 2. PLAY or AESTHETICS: entertainment, recreation, art, and appreciation of art. 3. SOCIABILITY: opening new conversations, making new friends, maintaining friendships, breaking friendships, trusting what others say, establishing trust for yourself. 4. FAMILY: having children, education of children, marriage. 5.…

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We live in an extraordinary time. We are caught up in a pace of social and technological change that makes our work, our business and education, sources of anxiety and unfulfillment. Thinking about our thinking and observing our observations can bring us a new world in which work becomes a place for innovation, and in which peace, wisdom, friendship, companionship…

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“1. First, human beings are linguistic beings and, as we’ll show, live in concerns unavoidable for linguistic beings. 2. Second, human beings live in history: they’re historical beings, born into a world of conversations already going on, with practices and institutions already established. And we’ll distinguish domains of concern unavoidable for such historical beings. 3. Third, human beings are selves: they have…

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“No observer is the observer of what is purely and simply given by reality; all observations and all interpretations are the observations and interpretations…

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Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.

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I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how…

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“Domains of Human Concerns: Common Types of Possibilities For Action 1. BODY: exercise, medical checkups, traveling to an appointment. 2. PLAY or AESTHETICS: taking a vacation, going to the movies, going to an art museum, painting, putting a puzzle together. 3. SOCIABILITY: inviting a new person into a conversation, meeting an old friend, declaring a person trustworthy or untrustworthy. 4.…

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“The next group of domains, which includes education, career, money, and “the world,” has to do with concerns we cannot avoid as human beings,…

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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

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