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“The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.”
Source : Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.10, BookBaby
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“My friends always joke that I run on batteries.”
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“I would argue that the management of creativity requires a skill set that's relatively different from the traditional management skill set that is appropriate to a large, complex, industrial-era organization.”
Source : Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.
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“The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.”
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“A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in plastic so her daughter could cut her teeth on the great thinker.”
Source : Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.41, Macmillan
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“Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.”
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“September had never been betrayed before. She did not even know what to call the feeling in her chest, so bitter and sour. Poor child. There is always a first time, and it is never the last time.”
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“Quite apart from our desire to avoid destroying the planet or economic meltdown, I offer another reason to position cooperation at the heart of our political economy: it will mean we are more likely to live sane, fruitful lives”