"The whole idea of mindfulness is all about having a second-level monitoring of your thoughts and being able to recognize them as being negative or harmful before they become a part of your being, before they become some kind of action like writing an angry letter to someone or speaking too strongly to someone."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Writing Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Negative Quotes

“Heaven is satisfied curiosity.”
“Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs.”

Source : "Nuremberg Diary". Book by G. M. Gilbert, 1995.
“I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Every time I look down on this timeless town, whether blue or gray be her skies, whether loud be her cheers, or whether soft be her tears, more and more do I realize that...I love Paris.”
“Some say it appears that painting has come to an end. I say the problem is that the painters' curiosity has come to an end, and this is more observable in the West and not in the East, since in the East there are plenty of untouched and unexplored spaces that could still inspire an artist as sources of creativity.”

Source : Negin magazine, No 77, p. 57, 1971.
“I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.”
“Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.”
“In the 1950s that tug-of-war between the expectations of behaving normally and the limitlessness of thinking freely produces some very strange characters.”

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