"The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself."

-- Madeleine L'Engle

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“Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it's stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that's when people do their best work. You can't fake confidence or empowerment.”

Source : "What's the ROI on Your Day? Amy Jo Martin on Passion and Innovation". Interview with Leslie Bradshaw, www.forbes.com. January 26, 2012.
“If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.”
“The future will be green, or not at all”
“... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.”
“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”

Source : Max Eastman (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.36, Transaction Publishers
“I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically.”
“But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate.”
“You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.”

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