"He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone who hadn't first smiled at me."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Thinking Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Cool Love Quotes

“The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.”
“There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.”
“Who wants to be normal when you can be unique?”
“Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.”
“Faith is an active creative force.”
“I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.”
“Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.”

Source : "Later" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.
“If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.”

Source : Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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