"To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well."

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Source : Edward M. Hallowell (1997). “Worry: Controlling it and Using it Wisely”, Pantheon

Edward Hallowell

#Memories Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Worry Quotes

“Art is good but it isn't the best.”
“What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?”
“The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one.”

Source : "Might as Well Be Dead". Book by Rex Stout. Chapter 9, 1956.
“I never realized that batting a little ball around could cause so much commotion. I now know how (Charles) Lindbergh must have felt when he returned from St. Louis.”
“There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He's one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens.”
“All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself.”

Source : "I'm a storyteller, that's all" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2002.
“Be adorable always to each other; respect is everlasting.”
“Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.”

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