"You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it."

-- William Thorsell

#Time Quotes #Stress Quotes #Pay Quotes

“The family is the most important wealth of a nation. May we endeavor to defend and strengthen the foundation of society.”
“I did a little film called Nina, a small role. I played a French girl who was a nurse to Nina Simone. Zoe Saldana plays Nina.”
“I am happy being based in Leeds, I feel settled.”
“The course of our lives is determined by how we react--what we decide and what we do--at the darkest of times. The nature of that response determines a person's true worth and greatness.”
“The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.”
“If you approach a difficult problem without struggle, your ego will at first try to take charge from years of habit. Do the minimum and stand back. Solutions incubate at a deep level, not at the speed demanded by your mind. Take a break and come back the next day. Allow the answers to arise from your center, even if it takes a while. However much you have to retrain yourself in this practice of Least Effort, the ability to come from your center is worth the highest price anyone could pay.”
“To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.”
“There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.”

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