"Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time away from your novel that will help preserve your balance. Exhaustion will affect both your writingâ€™s quality and your productivity."

-- Jeff VanderMeer

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“Psychologists would say that the only two important forms of social learning are imitation and teaching, and they will spend time trying to figure out if animals imitate or teach. Sometimes they find they do; sometimes they find they don't. And so that's kind of the level of controversy there. Biologists would include imitation and teaching and a range of other kinds of social learning. So we would call that culture, whereas the psychologist wouldn't.”

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“I have shot myself in the foot so many times, I'm crippled. Look, I am not exactly Mr. Great Career Guy. I shoot actually what I think. In a weird way, I used to think that was really messed up. Now I think it's okay. Mistakes, once you don't repeat the same mistakes, have no regrets. Live and learn. We mess up, so what. But know why you messed up and don't make the same mistake.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Youth need less critics and more models.”
“Our conditioning program begins the first day of class. The running portion is very demanding. It has physiological advantages, as well as psychological advantages.”
“Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.”
“I DON'T smoke anymore, except on National No Smoking Day as a protest against those who want to control our lives.”
“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
“When you die, no one's going to remember what iPhone you had.”

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