"The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. Itâ€™s called Denial."

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Source : Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.377, Knopf

Dan Brown

#Stress Quotes #Reality Quotes #Ego Quotes

“I want you to take a moment here and write down all the problems that are plaguing you at this moment, from big to small. Now ask yourself what you contributed in creating your current situation. Did the professor fail you because you never went to class? Did your boss yell at you because you were on YouTube instead of working?”
“The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.”
“Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.”

Source : James Cagney (1976). “Cagney by Cagney”
“As a notorious multi-tasker, I love exercise that serves several purposes. I ride my bike to work, do yoga to relax, and go out dancing to get my booty-shaking on!”
“I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.”
“I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very sort of heroic, oversized painting of black men in a barbershop. But it was painted on the same level and with the same urgency that you would see in a grand-scale [Anthony] van Dyck or [Diego] Velazquez. The composition was classically informed; the painting technique was masterful. And it was something that really inspired me because, you know, these were images of young, black men in painting on the museum walls of one of the more sanctified and sacred institutions in Los Angeles.”
“Where is love exchanged? Where is the love felt when a state administrator stuffs a welfare check into an outgoing mail?”
“I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.”

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