"The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality, the more carefully you observe the world and its people around you, the better chance you have of writing something meaningful and well-crafted."

-- Harlan Ellison

#Meaningful Quotes #Writing Quotes #Reality Quotes

“I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?”
“The only thing I can be sure of at any given time is what I am thinking myself. I have no idea what the others are thinking. Do they think space is big and dangerous? I do. What do they believe in? I think nobody ought to be alone. That one should be with someone. With friends. With the person one loves. I think it is important to love. I think it's the most important thing.”

Source : Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.82, Canongate Books
“It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although we often never recognise that context or understand what these precedents are.”
“The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture”
“I make fun whenever I go. If I go to restaurant by myself, rest assured, people will be talking about it.”
“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.”
“Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performing the act but does not do so, then it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking. The appropriate countermeasure then involves increasing the subjective value of the desired act relative to any competing response tendencies he might have, rather than having the model senselessly repeat an already redundant sequence of behavior.”

Source : Urie bronfenbrenner (1978). “2 Wrlds Childhood”, Pocket Books

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