"To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country."

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Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1880). “Short Studies of American Authors”

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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“Mindfulness is about finding ways to slow down and pay attention to the present moment-which improves performance and reduces stress. It’s about having the time and space to attend to what’s right in front of us, even though many other forces are trying to keep us stuck in the past or inviting us to fantasize or worry about the future. It’s about a natural quality each of us possesses, and which we can further develop in just a few minutes a day.”

Source : Tim Ryan (2012). “A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit”, p.17, Hay House, Inc
“I started drawing in first grade. Because the kid next to me was drawing, and I remember thinking: I want to be able to do that!”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“my advice to every student who is trying to make a decision for the years immediately after graduation: take the opportunity that in your mind is the most rewarding, that you are most passionate about and that you find most interesting and save the rest of your life for being risk averse. Whatever you want to do, this is the time to pursue it. Twenty years from now, your freedom to take risks will be limited.”

Source : Interview with Harvard Investment Magazine, Winter 2005.
“Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.”
“Pure water is the best gifts a man can bring. But who am I that I should have the best of anything? Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free, ...beer is good enough for me.”
“I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty much eliminate meetings from my life.”
“In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn.”
“I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have.”

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