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Elsa Barker
"There is almost no limit to the possibilities of the imagination, but to get the full power of it, one must trust one's imagination. If you say to yourself constantly, as the mother says to the child, 'But this is only play; this is not real,' you never can make real the things you have created in thought." --
Source : Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.119, Simon and Schuster
Elsa Barker
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“Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!”
“Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.”
“Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.”
“Please don't worry. I will always come for you. I won't let you go until you understand that." "Then I refuse to understand," she said.”
“"My #1 guiding principle for a successful life (learned from J Brad Britton): "Do the right thing; not the easy thing." Everyday, you are constantly faced with choices to do either the right thing (any activity that moves you closer to where and who you want to be) or the easy thing (anything else). In every moment of choice, choose to do the right thing over the easy thing, and your becoming successful is inevitable.”
“When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.”
“Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.”
“Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations.”
