"I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world."

-- Felix Dennis

#Country Quotes #Reading Quotes #Population Quotes

“Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.”
“Would you like to work at home and earn $150 per hour with data entry?”
“I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.”
“Affectations can be dangerous.”
“I walk into the office at Southwark Bridge every morning, and I have no idea whats going to happen.”
“My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.”

Source : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.105, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“All money is a matter of belief.”
“Life and work are not things apart. Work is more than gaining privileges and possessions; it is ongoing, ecstatic, LIVING experience. When we tap into living experience, we no longer feel as though we must be king. We can just be ALIVE at work! When we live in the bliss, there is no difficulty which is insurmountable. If we miss the bliss, there is no compensation which is adequate.”

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