"Good work is always done in defiance of management."

-- Bob Woodward

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“... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.”
“Sun of my soul! Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if Thou be near.”

Source : John Keble (1842). “The Christian year [by J. Keble, ed. by G.W. Doane]. 1st Amer. ed. 3rd Amer. ed”, p.20
“To reach new areas, you have to get your brain out of its comfort zone. There are various ways to do it, but I believe the easiest is by training yourself in a neurological phenomenon called synesthesia, in which the brain makes unusual associations between things like sounds, colors and emotions.”

Source : "The Easiest Way to Get a Better, Smarter Brain". Interview with Abigail Libers, www.oprah.com. September 2015.
“I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it.”
“Solutions to problems often come from knowing when to ask for help.”

Source : Buck Brannaman (2003). “Faraway Horses: The Adventures and Wisdom of One of America's Most Renowned Horsemen”, p.56, Rowman & Littlefield
“Tranquillity consisteth in a steadiness of the mind; and how can that vessel that is beaten upon by contrary waves and winds, and tottereth to either part, be said to keep a steady course? Resolution is the only mother of security.”
“My responsibility is simply being who I am and not buying into any projection as real. No projection is finally real, but projection does play a very important role.”
“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.”

Source : Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at Marietta, Ohio, July 8, 1938.

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