"your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone."

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Augusten Burroughs

#Mind Quotes #Neighborhood Quotes

“I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting season begins at noon.”
“He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.”
“One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that.”
“Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.”
“There is no such thing as defeat except when it comes from within. As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.”
“If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you don't, that's wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, don't shave them, wear flats one day, heels the next. These things are so irrelevant and surface to what it is all really about, and I wish people wouldn't get caught up in that. We want to empower women to do exactly what they want, to be true to themselves, to have the opportunities to develop.”
“Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.”
“My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.”

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