"We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness."

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Source : David Brooks (2011). “The Social Animal: A Story of How Success Happens”, p.5, Short Books

#Thinking Quotes #Levels Quotes #Awareness Quotes

“The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.”
“Statistics are designed to keep you safe.”

Source : 1997 Skating to Antarctica.
“I love isolation. It's very important for me to have time and space to myself when I can sit and read or write as well as paint. It's all part of the process.”
“The world exists on thousands of different levels and just because some are more tragic than others, it doesn't make them any more valid. You fall into that way of thinking and you become so overwhelmed by the world's suffering, you go mad.”

Source : Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.276, Pan Macmillan
“It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.”

Source : Renata Adler (1969). “A year in the dark: journal of a film critic, 1968-69”
“Even as a fan, as someone who's into his performances, the Stooges and his own stuff, Iggy [Pop] is one of the people who kept underlining something that a lot of my older musician friends with punk roots say: you get into this space in your life where you feel like a weirdo, you're marginalised, you don't fit in... and then you can get up on stage in front of people who probably hate you.”
“We often tend to think that the executive wishes to maintain standard, wishes to reach a certain quality of production, and that the worker has to be goaded in some way to do this. Again and again we forget that the worker is often, usually I think, equally interested, that his greatest pleasure in his work comes from the satisfaction of worthwhile accomplishment, of having done the best of which he was capable.”
“Dying isnâ€™t like living; it requires no effort at all.”

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