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Quote by Roy Sekoff

“My entire career is a succession of things I did wrong and learned from.”

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Roy Sekoff is a renowned editor with extensive experience in the media industry. His exact birth and death dates are unknown. He has held editorial positions at several well-known media institutions. more

“Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them. Aim high and be ridiculously persistent. Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people. Working at a big company sucks--avoid it. Smaller companies are 10 times better for learning. Be generous with your time and money--it has an amazingly fast payback. Be in the moment with everyone you love--and this frequently means tuning out work completely. And drive slow in parking lots.”

“The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.”

Men Firsts First Time August

Author:Simon Kernick

“Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems.”

Integrity Tasks Activist Personal Integrity

Book:The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability

Source: The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability

“People sometimes say that we will know feminism has done its job when half the CEOs are women. That’s not feminism; to quote Catharine MacKinnon, it’s liberalism applied to women. Feminism will have won not when a few women get an equal piece of the oppression pie, served up in our sisters’ sweat, but when all dominating hierarchies - including economic ones - are dismantled.”

People Knows Sometimes Done Jobs Half Pieces Feminism Economic Equal Including Oppression Liberalism Sweat Pie Ceo Hierarchy Dominating

Book:Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet

Source: Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet

“What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand at 200 species a day. That's 73,000 a year. This culture is oblivious to their passing, feels entitled to their every last niche, and there is no roll call on the nightly news.”

Source: Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet

“For those of us who can't be active on the front lines - and this will be most of us - our job is to create a culture that will encourage and promote political resistance. The main tasks will be loyalty and material support.”

Jobs Political Culture Lines Support Fronts Materials Tasks Active Loyalty Resistance

Book:Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet

Source: Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet

“It’s time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with adult knowledge. Our planet needs us. She needs us to think like healers and act like warriors. And if you think that’s a contradiction, then get out of the way.”

Ifs Thinking Way Needs Responsibility Planets Adults Assuming Warrior Contradiction Our Planet Fairytale Healer

Author:Lierre Keith

“Do we want to feel better or do we want to be effective? Are we sentimentalists or are we warriors?”

Want Feels Warrior Feel Better

Book:Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet

Source: Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet

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