"One of the main reasons wealth makes people unhappy is that it gives them too much control over what they experience. They try to translate their own fantasies into reality instead of tasting what reality itself has to offer."

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Source : Philip Elliot Slater (1980). “Wealth Addiction”, Dutton Adult

Philip Slater

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“I'm neither professional fighter nor physicist, therefore on some level I will always consider myself a failure.”
“As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.”

Source : "Charlton Heston Makes Statement About Alzheimer's". Press Conference, transcripts.cnn.com. August 09, 2002.
“I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.”
“If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't.”
“The greatest mistake marketers make is trying to create demand.”
“Once you try to do more than your equipment is capable of doing you get yourself in trouble and you start wrecking.”
“On going vegetarian." I was sitting here eating my plate of chicken salad, and suddenly I looked down and saw all the meat on my plate and just wasn't hungry anymore. So i've decided I'm not going to eat meat."”
“You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.”

Source : Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001). “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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