"Chess is a cure for headaches."

-- John Maynard Keynes

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“I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.”
“Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will be carrying it out for you. A family without a storyteller or two has no way to make sense out of their past and no way to get a sense of themselves.”
“There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.' This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found.”
“The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to two thousand, or two million, without thinking twice. The same person who finds it difficult to introduce himself to strangers might establish a presence online and then extend these relationships into the real world.”

Source : Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.63, Broadway Books
“Trouble follows me wherever I go. Thing I'm in is just a sack o'woe.”
“When you see these people that are in the public eye all the time, it must get tiring.”
“If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.”
“My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.”

Source : "Mike Leigh: 'Creativity is a life-blood for people'". interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. April 09, 2011.

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