"The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills."

-- Arthur Koestler

#Skills Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Creative Quotes

“He's not rewarding us by talking to us. He's talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity.”
“Pause and remember - At any moment you have the power to say 'this is enough' and radically change the course of your destiny. Have the faith and courage to follow your hearts calling.”
“Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.”
“It's not the world that distresses you but how you relate to it.”
“You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.”
“While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mark Hyman, MD from Jan 16, 2017
“When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.”
“It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.”

Source : Winslow Homer (1979). “Winslow Homer: Master of the Wood Engraving”

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