"I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food."

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Suzanne Collins

#Zero Quotes #People Quotes #Distraction Quotes

“When you really concentrate, you will get a sense of expansion. You will feel that you are larger person than you are physically, as if you become a person two or three sizes bigger than your ordinary physical self, and that you are flowing with all your being toward the object of your concentration. Whether it is a physical thing or an image that you are concentrating on, your whole invisible person will be in movement.”
“One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.”
“Business is the real test of the moral life.”

Source : "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.
“Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself?”
“Junior was being chided for his low grades. Little Robert, who lived a few doors away, was held up as an example. "Robert doesn't get C's and D's does he?" asked his father. "No," Junior admitted, "but he's different. He has very bright parents".”

Source : Jacob M. Braude (1975). “Braude's Handbook of Stories for Toastmasters and Speakers”, Prentice Hall
“Action learning particularly obliges subjects to become aware of their own value systems, by demanding that the real problems tackled carry some risk of personal failure.”
“To the extent that I've ever understood postmodernism - and I'm sure there are people out there who do, but I'm not one of them - one of its distinguishing traits is the story's awareness of its own artifice, and how that awareness becomes part of the story. And if that's right, then I have no idea how I ever got lumped into postmodernism except that I believe, since I was first published, people just haven't quite known where else to put me.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.”

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