"But leisure has little to do with one's happiness.Â To the contrary, I've found that the happiest people have found some cause and they stride through life propelled by a commitment."

--

Source : Alan Loy McGinnis (1985). “Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Enjoy Helping Others Excel”, p.66, Augsburg Books

Alan Loy McGinnis

#Commitment Quotes #People Quotes #Littles Quotes

“My parents were comfortable with me exploring areas that they were not proficient in. Some parents just aren't comfortable with that.”
“I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and our ancestors. But if we don't grow out of it in the fullness of time, our ... nature makes us a sitting target for astrologers, mediums, gurus, evangelists, and quacks. We need to replace the automatic credulity of childhood with the constructive skepticism of adult science.”
“We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.”
“I kind of joke with myself that you shouldn't be able to be a creative producer if you weren't a first AD. Because it is such fantastic training for really understanding what everyone does, and how the movie actually gets made. You have to know if you're the first you're kind of the set general, you're at the director's right hand, you know everything about how a director puts a movie together, you know everything about how a movie gets made.”
“Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.”
“I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.”
“Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply.”

Source : Isaac Thomas HECKER (1857). “Aspirations of nature”, p.24

You may also like:

Anthony de Mello
Writer
Arthur E. Powell
David J. Schwartz
Motivational writer
Florence Littauer
Author
Frank Bettger
Author
Les Giblin
Author
Masaaki Imai
Consultant
Orrin Woodward
Author
Robert Cialdini
Professor