"Why donâ€™t you focus on where youâ€™re going and less on where you came from?"

-- Amy Harmon

“By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking.”

Source : "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.
“As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.”
“Rio in four years; I've got more inspiration in the last two, three weeks. I'm sure I'm going to get more in the Paralympics in the next coming weeks, so by the end of this season, I'm going to take a month off, and then the next four years is going to be good.”
“Normal birth to me should not be numb from the waist down and waiting for the doctor to tell you to push. There's a reason we feel it. There's a reason we need to feel it.”

Source : "Ricki Lake Delivers Maternal Health Awareness" By Eleanor Goldberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2011.
“How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!”
“A few years ago, a friend said to me: "You do realize, Ian, when X-Men and Lord of the Rings come out, your life will totally change?" I didn't know what he was talking about, but he was right. My life has totally changed - but in a good way. Unbeknownst to me, it's given me a lot more confidence.”
“Even if people just change two or three things that they are able to sustain over time, it makes quite a difference eventually.”
“I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?”

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