"Most people assume that folks with amazing mental abilities were born this way and that they operate on a plane that's inaccessible to the rest of us. But nothing could be further from the truth. For more than a decade, I've studied people with uncanny abilities - card counters who can beat the house, self-taught artists, people who can remember an unbelievable amount of information. Here's the thing: These weren't innate skills - they were acquired."

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Source : "The Easiest Way To Get A Better, Smarter Brain". Interview with Abigail Libers, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2015.

Berit Brogaard

#Artist Quotes #People Quotes #House Quotes

“There is no best anything in art.”
“I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue”
“It is the Father's life, and the Father's life alone, that ever lives the Christian life. It is the Father's life, and Father's life alone, which will live the Christian life in you. Embrace a formula or a list in order to "live the Christian life," and you are doomed to frustration.”

Source : Gene Edwards (1991). “The secret to the Christian life: have we overlooked the main point?”, Christian Books Pub House
“Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.”
“Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.”
“A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.”
“All a person does in a moment of suffering is to suffer. There is not room for anything else.”

Source : Philip Ó Ceallaigh (2006). “Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse”
“I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.”

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