"When there is a fight of reason versus emotion and the mind wonders which one to follow, in most times, emotion wins over reason. But it is reason that should win and emotion shouldn't."

-- Abu Sufyan ibn Harb

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“Positivity doesn't just change the contents of your mind...It widens the span of possibilities that you see.”

Source : Barbara Fredrickson (2009). “Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life”, p.9, Harmony
“Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected.”
“Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.”
“I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”

Source : "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, (Chapter XI), 1901.
“And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.”
“I buy digital music off of iTunes all the time. I Shazam something in an airport or in a club or something; I Shazam it, I buy it. I am fully digital.”
“I'm a perimeter player. I'm more like a Ray Allen.”
“The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances.”

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