"I admire self-awareness more than probably any other quality, and I think in terms of what qualities are "good" in a person, it's a mostly subjective opinion, so I can't see a reason to think that self-absorption is inherently a bad thing."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Marie Calloway

#Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes #Quality Quotes

“I would have to find something else to bury here and I wished it could be Charles.”
“You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.”

Source : "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 202), 1986.
“I don't like it when a girl tries too hard to act cute or pretty.”
“It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.”
“The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.”

Source : "The week in books" by Giles Foden, John Dugdale, Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2009.
“It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator's hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give existence to a certain determinate number of species, but it seems that it has thrown out all at once a world of relative and non-relative creatures, an infinity of harmonic and contrary combinations and a perpetuity of destructions and replacements. What idea of power is not given us by this spectacle! What feeling of respect for its Author is not inspired in us by this view of the universe!”
“When Jesus started His ministry, the very first thing He did was form a small group.”
“I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.”

Source : Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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