"It's much more important to write than to be written about."

-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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“Concentration and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion to a condition of ease, clarity, and wisdom. No external action needs to happen.”

Source : Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2008). “Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life”, p.14, Ballantine Books
“One thing Iâ€™ve noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.”
“I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn.”
“An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.”
“There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.”
“What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.”
“Roaming the world as a foreign correspondent for more than a decade, I was able to observe how a variety of vastly different nations organized themselves economically. The inescapable conclusion was that no politician anywhere on the planet has ever actually created a rupee's worth of prosperity.”

Source : Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street newsletter, November 1996.
“After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.”

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