"Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing. Every dancer and acrobat knows enough to let the mind go, let the body run itself. Every driver of a manual vehicle arrives at destinations with no recollection of the stops and turns and roads traveled in getting there. You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers."

Source : Peter Watts (2006). “Blindsight”, p.302, Macmillan

Peter Watts

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“I come from a people who gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Time has come to strenghten them by three additional ones, which we ought to adopt and commit ourselves to: thou shall not be a perpetrator; thou shall not be a victim; and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander.”
“Be the kind of person you want to be attracted to. You will find that you are less and less drawn to people with difficult character issues and more desirous to find people who are full of grace, safety, acceptance, and a hunger to grow.”
“If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.”
“I think a lot of comedians sometimes pretend to find the job more taxing than it is.”

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“The most beautiful gift I have received in my life is the trust of Clint Eastwood. When you have this respect and this kind of responsibility on your shoulders, of course you bring the best of yourself.”

Source : "Cécile de France on working with Clint Eastwood". Interview with Michael Ordoña, www.sfgate.com. October 17, 2010.
“You work for a long period of time and the results don't really show, but at some point everything just comes together and you start to play better, or get more confidence.”
“I just . . . knew, the way you know how to breathe or to pull your hand back from a hot stove.”
“Complexity demands resilience, and that's what panarchy offers. Resilience in the face of complexity is a challenge even when you apply rigorous intelligence and integrity to develop a coherent and flexible strategy.”

Source : Robert David Steele (2012). “The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust”, p.86, North Atlantic Books

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