"We have a funny concept of time in this culture. We revere it as we revere money, yet we rarely spend any of it on ourselves. We complain that we can't make what time we have go around, yet day after day we spend our allotment doing things we don't really want to be doing."

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Source : Jan Phillips (2012). “Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity”, p.5, Quest Books

Jan Phillips

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“If you're 70th or 80th on the money list, it's not very motivating.”
“I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.”

Source : "Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization". Book by Steven Solomon (p. 495), www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2010.
“So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.”
“Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.”
“Looking at voter behavior over the years I'm always interested to see and impressed to see how voters eventually find the key issues that matter to them to cast their vote.”
“Theres always going to be a place for YouTube.”
“Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.”

Source : 1267 Opus Majus (translated by Robert Belle Burke, 1928).
“We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.”

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