"To overextend yourself is to invite defeat."

-- G. William Domhoff

#Defeat Quotes #Invites Quotes

“Things looked funny because my pictures depend on an emotional state... I know this is true and I thought about this for a long time. Somehow it made me feel very, very good.”
“The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.”
“I don't care what the tape says. I didn't say it.”
“When we stop fighting with ourselves, we aren't creating anymore conflict in our mind. Then our mind can for the first time relax and be still. Then for the first time our consciousness can become whole and unfragmented. Then total attention can be given to all of our thoughts and feelings. And then there will be found a gentleness and a goodness in us that can embrace all that is been given in the world. Then a deep love for everything will be the result of this deep attention. For this total attention, this soft and pure consciousness that we are, is nothing but Love itself.”
“If you want to travel on the airline system, you give up your privacy. If you want your privacy, don't fly. Flying is voluntary.”
“If you learn music, you'll learn history. If you learn music, you'll learn mathematics. If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to learn.”
“The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.”

Source : José Raúl Capablanca (1921). “Chess Fundamentals”, Harcourt
“It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime than you are to die in a plane crash. What an amazing achievement as a society! But what we end up focusing on are the catastrophic failures that are incredibly rare but happen every now and then.”

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