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Bird by Bird (Anne Lamott)


You can't tell your truths in a sentence or a paragraph; the truth doesn't come out in a bumper sticker.
page: 103
tags: truth authenticity

A moral position is not a slogan, or wishful thinking. It doesn't come from outside or above. It begins inside the heart of a character and grows from there. Tell the truth and write about freedom and fight for it, however you can, and you will be richly rewarded.
page: 109
tags: morality truth freedom

Truth seems to want expression. Unacknowledged truth saps your energy and keeps you wired and delusional.
page: 199
tags: truth energy delusion

Truth is always subversive--it is a revolutionary act.
page: 226
tags: truth

Maybe what you've written will help others, will be a small part of the solution. You don't even have to know how or in what way, but if you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
page: 235
tags: truth communication purpose



Linchpin (Seth Godin)


What the boss really wants is someone who can see the reality of today and describe a better tomorrow.
page: 38
tags: vision worldview truth

Imagine an organization with an employee who can accurately see the truth, understand the situation, and understand the potential outcomes of various decisions. And now imagine that this person is also able to make something happen.
page: 50
tags: truth potential

When you defend your position, what are you defending? Are you defending your past, your present, or the future you are nostalgic about? Just because you want something to be true doesn't make it so.
page: 183
tags: truth defensiveness nostalgia



Reality is Broken (Jane McGonigal)


The goal of history is uncovering the moral problems and moral truths in the concrete data of experience.
page: 6
tags: history truth