Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.
#Balance Quotes #Realistic Quotes #Absolutes Quotes
“I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.”
“We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy.”
“There is no excuse for anyone not to train three times a week...Anyone can change their mind if they want to. It's all about motivation”
“We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.”
“I love cycling, running and swimming. In recent years I've competed regularly in triathlons, which means I don't find the physical side of driving a struggle any more.”
“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”
Source : Simone de Beauvoir (1963). “Nature of the second sex”
“The fact is, you can't marry the best when you're dating the runner-up. While you're searching for Mr. Right, don't settle for Mr. Right Now.”
“I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that.”
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