"Many people do not distinguish between something that happens to them and their reaction to it.Â Yet it isn't the event or situation that holds the emotional charge; it's our beliefs that create our response."

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Source : Chip Conley (2012). “Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

Chip Conley

#Emotional Quotes #People Quotes #Events Quotes

“I put the ball in play. That's what I want.”
“Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant,”

Source : "James Risen: Obama hates the press" by Hadas Gold, www.politico.com. October 6, 2014.
“I just liked to play football, no matter what the position.”
“It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.”
“I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.”
“One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem. By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself. I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that. So to try to truly render the kind of economic and racial inequity I grew up in, I had to find a way to be more honest about what happened. And it wasn't fun to write, even though the poems aren't 100% autobiographical.”
“Good medicine is bitter to the mouth, but has an effect on the disease. Faithful words hurt one's ears, but have value for one's conduct.”
“We must be unanimous; there must be no pulling different ways; we must hang together.”

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