"When you write a novel, there's a level at which you are much more revealing about who you are because you're less self-conscious about how you're presenting yourself. You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you."

-- Elizabeth Gilbert

#Writing Quotes #Dna Quotes #Self Quotes

“For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.”

Source : "End of an Epoch: Kennedy to Be Buried Near Brothers at Arlington" by Joe Holley, www.washingtonpost.com. August 27, 2009.
“We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but is an endowment from God.”
“Stay strong. Depression lies.”
“It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.”
“Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong,”
“I don't think anything will change until Americans revolt and get it into their heads that they need to be informed voters instead of just listening to the paid political ads.”
“What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.”

Source : Ryan Holiday (2012). “Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator”, p.201, Penguin
“We consciously use only a small portion of our brain, but we're constantly performing complex operations in other areas even though we're unaware of it. Savants gain access to unconscious areas when the brain's bossy left hemisphere is muted. The left is in charge of much of our organized thought and decision-making and tends to suppress the right side, which generally rules creative activities.”

Source : "The Easiest Way to Get a Better, Smarter Brain". Interview with Abigail Libers, www.oprah.com. September 2015.

You may also like:

BrenÃ© Brown
Author
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Author
Cheryl Strayed
Novelist
Deepak Chopra
Author
Eustace Conway
Naturalist
Javier Bardem
Actor
Julia Roberts
Actress
Ruth Stone
Poet
Ryan Murphy
Screenwriter