"People who try to boss themselves always want (however kindly) to boss other people. They always think they know best and are so stern and resolute about it they are not very open to new and better ideas."

-- Brenda Ueland

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“I hope that people will come and experience our play 'A Small Oak Tree Runs Red' . I don't want anybody to suffer, but I source the 18th Century philosopher David Hume in association with the experience. He asserted that when we go to a tragic play, and when the form of tragedy is well put together, then we can experience a catharsis that is soul cleansing, and an anodyne to what our life would be like without it.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
“You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.”
“Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.”
“I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.”
“Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated.”
“Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory. There are times, Watts maintained, when we need to forget things, to let them slip away into the unremembered past.”

Source : Larry Dossey (2007). “The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness”, p.31, Harmony
“I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm traveling toward light.”
“Constant change is part of the American culture for most people.”

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