"It is the job of conscious rational thought to decide what you want, select the goals you wish to achieve-and concentrate upon these rather than upon what you do not want. To spend time and effort concentrating upon what you do not want is not rational."

-- Maxwell Maltz

#Motivational Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Goal Quotes

“Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?”

Source : "Pippa Middleton joins the party" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2008.
“True compassion is about not bruising the other personâ€™s self-respect.”
“We are unprofitable servants, we have done what we were obliged to do.”
“When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over.”
“Rain knows the earth and loves it well, for rain is the passion of the earth.”

Source : Estela Portillo Trambley (1975). “Rain of Scorpions and Other Writings”, Tqs Publications
“When you give your heart and you give it to God, where your treasure is, that's where your heart is. And so you put your heart in your hand which is in the form of monetary- or money, or offering, and you say, 'God! Here it is!'”
“Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their Gs and saying things in a folksy sort of way thats meant to capture the hearts of people. And its all fraud; its all stagecraft. And people are falling for a great deal of elite behavior in this country packaged as if its proletariat behavior.”
“William Graebner's brilliant analysis of America's struggles over the meaning of Patty Hearst gives us not only new perspectives on the 1970s, on Americans' fundamental understandings of their world in a bicentennial year that offered little to celebrate, but also on the longing for heroism and the desire for belief in free will that Graebner believes structured the rise of Reagan-era conservatism. This is a masterful work of cultural history.”

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