"Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active."

-- Bertrand Russell

#Imagination Quotes #Effort Quotes #Desire Quotes

“God doesn't want us to be happy when it causes us to do something wrong or unwise”
“I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.”
“I think what happened in the last 10 or 15 years in the art market is that all the players - and that includes artists, dealers, art advisors, everyone - basically became dealers. We've had old-school collectors morph into speculators, flipping works. We've seen auction houses buying works directly from artists or from sleazy middlemen. The last step before the crash was the artists themselves supplying the auction houses. Dealing themselves, you know? The art world is as unregulated as any financial market there is.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The traditional paradigm of parenting has been very hierarchical, the parent knows best and very top down. Conscious parenting topples [this paradigm] on its head and creates this mutuality, this circularity where both parent and child serve each other and where in fact, perhaps, the child could be even more of a guru for the parent .... teaching the parent how the parent needs to grow, teaching the parent how to enter the present moment like only children know how to do.”

Source : Source: www.chicagonow.com
“Don't give up your power.”
“When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.”

Source : Jessica Mitford (1973). “Kind and usual punishment: the prison business”, Not Avail
“Until recently weâ€™ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a serious study of how story affects the human mind. Results repeatedly show that our attitudes, fears, hopes, and values are strongly influenced by story. In fact, fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than writing that is specifically designed to persuade through argument and evidence.”
“The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.”

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