"Relationships help us to define who we are and what we can become. Most of us can trace our successes to pivotal relationships."

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Source : Donald O. Clifton (1992). “Soar with Your Strengths”

Donald O. Clifton

#Who We Are Quotes #Helping Quotes

“Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more. So the next new pleasure has to be bigger and better, more exciting, with a bigger "high." A person in this state becomes almost entirely narcissistic, interpreting all of life in terms of the pleasure it provides to the self here and now.”
“Politics is gut; commercials are gut.”
“Introvert conversations are like jazz, where each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo. And like jazz, once we get going, we can play all night. Extrovert conversations are more like tennis matches, where thoughts are batted back and forth, and players need to be ready to respond. Introverts get winded pretty quickly.”

Source : Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.206, Sourcebooks, Inc.
“The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.”
“One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.”
“I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.”
“I forget sometimes that Im in the HBO stable because I am such a fan of so much of their programming. Like, The Wire is my favorite TV show of all time.”

Source : Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2011.
“Creationists have long held that evolutionary theory is atheistic; defenders of the theory do the theory no favor when they agree.”

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