"History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar."

-- Mal Peet

#Waiting Quotes #Bars Quotes #Burgers Quotes

“You may have made a lot of wrong choices, but youâ€™ve also made a lot of choices that were right. Focus on your good qualities. Focus on your victories. Get off the treadmill of guilt.”
“A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.”
“Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.”
“Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.”
“Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.”
“Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.”
“I was born with my moustache and, no, I've never been tempted to shave it off. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about my face and, like Gilbert and Sullivan's Katisha, my best feature is my left shoulder-blade.”

Source : "What I see in the mirror: Robert Winston" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.
“Because it is a 'use it or lose it' brain, when we develop a map area [in the brain], we long to keep it activated. Just as our muscles become impatient for exercise if we've been sitting all day...”

Source : Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.108, Penguin

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