"One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens."

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Source : "How I learned a language in 22 hours" by Joshua Foer, www.theguardian.com. November 09, 2012.

Joshua Foer

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“God gave us creation to enjoy it. I believe this is the reason we fight against injustice so that all of creation can experience the beauty of God's goodness and grace.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic studies the player must treat them as if they are musical value.”
“To be invisible so Rev could never find me.”
“But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.”
“There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.”
“To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play.”
“I like doing the mainstream, right-down-the-pike broad comedies as much as I like doing the kind of unorthodox different stuff.”
“I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.”

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