"I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Emily Gould

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Ambassadors Quotes

“The only real security is not insurance or money or a job, not a house and furniture paid for, or a retirement fund, and never is it another person. It is the skill and humor and courage within, the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.”
“You are my siren,â€ he said, running his hands along her thighs and down her calves, feeling the shape of her even as the silk of her gown kept them both from what they wanted. â€œMy temptress . . . my sorceress . . . I cannot resist you, no matter how I try. You threaten to send me over the edge.”
“It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.”

Source : Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”
“Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.”

Source : Sir Richard Branson (2011). “Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life and Business”, p.121, Random House
“I was really interested in 20th century communalism and alternative communities, the boom of communes in the 60s and 70s. That led me back to the 19th century. I was shocked to find what I would describe as far more utopian ideas in the 19th century than in the 20th century. Not only were the ideas so extreme, but surprising people were adopting them.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“But now I rejoice when, in my winter studio, I can spread out my summer studies and recall through them the beautiful season and places which gave them being. Here the painter feels how small things may suggest the greater - the drop of water, image the firmament.”
“Some students are in a hurry to begin "real" pranayama. They go right to the later stages without first laying a quality foundation, and their practice often suffers. First find out what is. This is also part of the answer to the question Who am I?”

Source : Richard Rosen (2002). “The Yoga of Breath: A Step-by-Step Guide to Pranayama”, p.141, Shambhala Publications
“As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.”

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