"Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction."

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“Dreams are one of your greatest natural therapies, and one of your most effective assets as connectors between the interior and exterior universes.”
“There are things I want to do to be a better human being and a better father.”
“Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain.”
“German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful.”

Source : Paul Celan, Rosemarie Waldrop (2003). “Collected Prose”, p.15, Psychology Press
“Don't let anybody tell you that it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.”
“I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.”
“Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.”
“The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.”

Source : Max Eastman (1962). “Reflections on the failure of socialism”

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