"When you spar in boxing, the only thing that gets hurt is your brain. Everything else feels pretty good."

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Source : "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

Jonathan Gottschall

#Hurt Quotes #Boxing Quotes #Brain Quotes

“Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.”
“I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences.”
“Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror.”
“Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.”
“No matter what you do, no matter how hard it is, no matter how challenging it isdo it with a smile on your face.”
“Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.”

Source : Wynton Marsalis, Geoffrey Ward (2008). “Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life”, p.13, Random House
“The way forward is to stop pestering yourself for answers and let it, the creative part of your mind, come up with the solution when the time is right.”
“I would just as likely be doing soccer practice as filming commercials.”

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