"It suits my own attitude toward the world and its people to believe that the Raven is this completely self-centered, uninvolved bringer of change, through inadvertence and accident, and so on... It's a version of the Raven myth for today, not for the time when it was created."

-- Bill Reid

#Attitude Quotes #Believe Quotes #Self Quotes

“I look back, and I've got a couple of films, and I'm happy.”

Source : "Jean-Marc Vallee Takes on More". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 30, 2013.
“Every second is of infinite value.”
“The more conscious of God's presence the more I feel like being myself, the less conscious of His presence, the more I feel I need to prove myself.”
“Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.”

Source : Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.1, Tuttle Publishing
“I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.”
“Selling - at its core - is not a business transaction. It is first and foremost the forging of a human connection.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bob Burg from Dec 21, 2010
“You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.”
“To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. ... It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.”

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