"I really look at my life before kids and after kids and before I was more - not narcissistic - but I was definitely more selfish. I didn't have the same concerns as I do now. I've always been political, but you've gotta be engaged. You can't be apathetic anymore because what's at stake is bigger than yourself, it's your kids."

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Source : "Raine Maida On Raising Three Boys". Interview With Joel Balsam, www.askmen.com.

Raine Maida

#Selfish Quotes #Kids Quotes #Political Quotes

“Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.”
“You need more than an idea to run a business”
“I felt a rush of trust--felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present.”
“I think the role of comedy in your life should supersede anything and everything negative. Just by virtue of the fact that you have to be funny, you can't afford to focus on the negative. As a comedian, your challenge is to turn negative stuff into positive energy. You should be able to hear anything that sounds bad, that people normally wouldn't laugh at, and make it feel funny to you. No one should be able to deter you, once you have your mind set on comedy. Your survival as a comedian should be as natural as breathing. I need to breathe and I consider my career my air.”

Source : Source: www.theskanner.com
“The use of the Will as the projector of Mentative Currents is the real base of all Mental Magic.”

Source : William Walker Atkinson (2016). “THE POWER OF MIND - 17 Books Collection: The Key To Mental Power Development And Efficiency, Thought-Force in Business and Everyday Life, The Power of Concentration, The Inner Consciousness…: Suggestion and Auto-Suggestion + Memory: How to Develop, Train, and Use It, Practical Mental Influence + The Subconscious and the Superconscious Planes of Mind + Self-Healing by Thought Force…”, p.843, e-artnow
“Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of your occupations.”
“I was kind of a little disappointed when they started building a competition between Marty (Martin Scorsese) and me. I have the greatest respect for him and all the films he's done over the years.”
“All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.”

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