"You get most out of walking by going along briskly, swinging the arms and breathing deeply. It also helps promote the circulation of blood to the brain. The Greek philosophers promenaded as they philosophized."

-- Paul Dudley White

#Blood Quotes #Breathing Quotes #Greek Quotes

“Education occurs when students set out to educate themselvesâ€¦ the student will only learn, can only learn, what he chooses to learnâ€¦(An) advantage of not pushing is an innate sense (his) education is (his) responsibility and reward.”
“The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...”
“If you are serious, and you want to make a living as an author, then you need to hustle. Period. If you can't make that quality, then you need to concentrate on your craft and practice more. One other thing, quality comes with practice. If you are prolific, then you become a better writer because you are writing. The more you do anything the better at it you will become. So in a way, quantity does add to quality.”
“On its own, having escaped my grasp, the spool I had loosed was unwinding.”
“Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?”
“There was zero time for reflection. We had to feed the prisoners three meals a day, deal with the prisoner breakdowns, deal with their parents, run a parole board. By the third day I was sleeping in my office. I had become the superintendent of the Stanford county jail. That was who I was: I'm not the researcher at all. Even my posture changes--when I walk through the prison yard, I'm walking with my hands behind my back, which I never in my life do, the way generals walk when they're inspecting troops.”
“No two men living at the same time live in the same time.”

Source : Elliott Jaques (1982). “The form of time”, Crane Russak & Co
“Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.”

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