"Everyday is filled with opportunities to take a quiet moment"

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Source : Dana Reinhardt (2009). “How to Build a House”, p.67, Wendy Lamb Books

Dana Reinhardt

#Opportunity Quotes #Quiet Moments Quotes #Everyday Quotes

“From these activists we can learn a crucial lesson: without citizens creating the institutions necessary for facilitating the growth of public deliberation, democracy will be a meaningless term. Without political leaders articulating this idea and acting upon it, public life and citizenship will continue to stagnate.”
“I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record,”
“The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and whatever decision is taken will harm somebody.”

Source : James Joll (1960). “Intellectuals in politics: three biographical essays”
“I hate it when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs' when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They're unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.”
“Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.”
“The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labor to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness.”
“God, was I going to have another day of painful thoughts jumping me every time I relaxed? The obvious solutionâ€”to just not relaxâ€”was kind of sucking.”
“What would you love to achieve and accomplish? What would you feel great about doing in your life? What meaningful goals would you wish to reach? Imagine achieving and accomplishing everything that you would wish [dream] for. Picture yourself reaching your highest aspirations and your most meaningful goals. Visualize yourself speaking and acting the way you would wish with the highest and best character traits.”

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