"There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy."

-- Joyce Grenfell

#Pursuit Of Happiness Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Funeral Quotes

“Just as important as getting enough sleep is thinking about sleep in the right way. Stop thinking of sleep and naps as â€œdowntimeâ€ or as a â€œwaste of time.â€ Think of them as opportunities for memory consolidation and enhancing the brain circuits that help skill learning. Nor should you feel guilty about sleep. It's just as crucial a part of successful brain work as the actual task itself.”

Source : Richard Restak (2009). “Think Smart: A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance”, p.41, Penguin
“My attitude towards my time as a musician, is that I really wanted to completely reinvent myself and not be one of these people who, twenty, thirty years later, is trying to recreate something that happened. I'm glad that Neil Young still makes records, but I don't know that everybody needs to be frozen in time forever. I think it's good that pop music is ephemeral.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.”
“People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.”
“I find that my touchstones go out the window, the routines, the things that you do to keep you grounded. Then when I'm out of work I have too much time. The trick is not to get lost surfing the Internet.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.”
“I'm not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and that has really changed the life of my work - I found a way to trick myself into being intuitive.”
“My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.”

Source : "Bill Walton Is Talkin' With TJ". Interview with Tom James, www.nba.com.

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