"I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present."

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Source : Good Reads interview, www.goodreads.com. October, 2009.

Joy Fielding

“Thackwell really can metaphorically coast home now”
“When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.”

Source : Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.231, Nilgiri Press
“English life is nothing but a huge masquerade ball in which the participants contrive to conceal their feelings, their addresses, their hobbies, their incomes, their decorations, their sorrows, their talents, their achievements, and even their names.”
“Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.”
“Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.”
“People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.”
“People don't stop me on the street and throw things at me. But I'm aware of what that dynamic is, so whenever people react strongly to a character and say that they hate me, I take it as a job well done. And for most people, there's a sense of removal. Most people are not saying, "Oh, my god, I hate you!" Most people that have reactions say, "I love to hate your character."”
“I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic.”

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