"The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought."

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John Bargh

#Thinking Quotes #World Quotes #Way Quotes

“When I know that I have played as well as I can. It doesn't matter so much whether I have won or lost. But being completely satisfied with myself? That's something that never really happens to me.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“(On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth is then rarefied by the heat, and releases into the air all the heat-particles it happens to have. So, the more the earth is drained of heat, the colder becomes the moisture that is concealed in the ground. On the other hand, when all the earth condenses and contracts and congeals with the cold, then, of course, as it contracts, it squeezes out into the wells whatever heat it holds.”
“As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the nail in, I enjoy knocking nails in walls to hang pictures up, but I also enjoy thinking 'I'm gonna do that' but I actually won't do it, I enjoy imagining doing things just as much.”
“The tougher the job, the greater the reward.”

Source : George Allen (1990). “Strategies for winning: a top coach's game plan for victory in football and in life”, McGraw-Hill Companies
“You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working.”

Source : Emmet Fox (2010). “Make Your Life Worthwhile”, p.24, Harper Collins
“When your team scores one run, it's common sense that you have to hold the other team to no runs.”
“What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.”
“On my early trips to London and Paris, in 2009, I started to shift to more wide-brimmed felt hats similar to Borsalinos and Stetsons.”

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