"He'd never had to make the adjustments and compromises other people accepted early in their romantic careers; never had a chance to learn the lesson that Sarah taught him everyday--that beauty was only a part of it, and not even the most important part, that there were transactions between people that occurred on some mysterious level beneath the skin, or maybe even beyond the body."

-- Tom Perrotta

#Careers Quotes #People Quotes #Everyday Quotes

“The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.”
“I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical.”
“I don't think interviewing people is any different than normal communication. The only thing is that it has these boundaries set upon it as to what the conversation is about.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Morality is essentially a suite of psychological mechanisms that enable us to cooperate. But, biologically at least, we only evolved to cooperate in a tribal way. Individuals who were more cooperative with those around them - could outcompete others who were not. However, we have the capacity to take a step back from this and ask what a more global morality would look like. Why are the lives of people on the other side of the world worth any less than those in my immediate community? Going through that reasoning process can allow our moral thinking to do something it never evolved to.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“Figuring out our gifts in life is part of our journey to becoming enlightened human beings.”

Source : Allison DuBois (2008). “Don't Kiss Them Goodbye”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
“Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of a credit on maybe one movie, or none. So they're all theoretical.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“There is no crime greater, or more worthy of punishment, than being strange and frightened among the strange and frightened; except assimilation to the end of becoming strange and frightened, but apart from ones own real self.”

Source : Israel Horovitz (1968). “The Indian Wants the Bronx”, p.5, Dramatists Play Service Inc
“Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.”

Source : "Mathematical Circles Squared". Book by Howard W. Eves, 1972.

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