"But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage."

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Source : Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.9, Canongate Books

Maria Konnikova

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“That's not a role you prepare for. There's no preparation. You don't have time to prepare for the reading of an audiobook. You do the reading of an audiobook in basically two days' time - an unabridged version, maybe three days.”
“We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.”

Source : Jim Harrison (2007). “Off to the Side: A Memoir”, p.21, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“It is a fact of life that people give dinner parties, and when they invite you, you have to turn around and invite them back. Often they retaliate by inviting you again, and you must then extend another invitation. Back and forth you go, like Ping-Pong balls, and what you end up with is called social life.”
“She gives him what he can only call a sweet smile. 'So you are determined to go on being bad. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know. I promise, no one will ask you to change.”
“I look at the past and I see myself.”
“I'm a golfer not a history major.”
“Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.”

Source : Herbert Marcuse (1964). “One dimensional man: studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society”
“He's built up to be invincible and no man is invincible, any man can be knocked out.”

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