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Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
"Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination."
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Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
#Writing Quotes
#Journey Quotes
#Imagination Quotes
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“You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.”
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“There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.”
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“My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.”
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“The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as equality, leads to both absurdity and cruelty. The British are fast turning themselves into a nation of slaves, where even the slave-masters are not free.”
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“A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.”
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“The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.”
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“It's really been a better situation for me being with the Crush than it would if I were with the Broncos because this has given me a lot more broad range”
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“There's a depth of meaning all on its own in awareness being gentled. From within the subtlety of being gentled, the level of perception changes. Instead of perceiving the obviousness of experience, you're able as awareness to perceive most subtle meaning.”
