"I'm still not sure what pulled me into the career I chose, even though, now, I can't imagine having done anything else. Mostly, I think I wanted to be a writer, or at least to try for a while."

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Source : Peter Gzowski (2001). “A Peter Gzowski Reader”, McClelland & Stewart Ltd

Peter Gzowski

#Thinking Quotes #Careers Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Remember always that there are two things which are more utterly incompatible even than oil and water, and these two are trust and worry. Can you call it trust, when you have given the saving and keeping of your soul into the hands of God, if day after day you are spending hours of anxious thought and questionings about the matter? When believers really trust anything, they cease to worry about the thing they have trusted.”
“I don't want to be on the phone talking numbers and budget. I want to be creating a world.”
“Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend lifespan.”

Source : "How Do You Make An Elderly Worm Feel Young Again?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 22, 2015.
“We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?”
“I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.”
“If you want those around you to act in a more loving and conscious manner, act in a way that helps them to do so.”
“the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.”
“This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.”

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