"Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?"

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Source : David Baldacci (2011). “The Whole Truth”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

David Baldacci

#Trying Quotes #Waste Quotes #Wasting Time Quotes

“Go away. I told you, I'm not interested." She looked from his lap to his face. "Your nose is growing too.”
“I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.”
“The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.”

Source : "The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1950.
“Growing up, it was difficult to find role models I could relate too. Mass media told me to emulate sexy singers or sexy actresses. Jane Goodall was the closest thing I found to a woman I wanted to be like.”
“His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were, 'These photos are of poor quality. Why is there no sharp focus? There is no clarity!' I said, 'But your Holiness, it's Goyaesque.' And he said, 'No! It's out of focus!'”
“Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear”

Source : Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Chosen”, p.139, Pan Macmillan
“Be purposeful. Be patient, and be active!”

Source : John Assaraf, Murray Smith (2008). “The Answer: Grow Any Business, Achieve Financial Freedom, and Live an Extraordinary Life”, p.63, Simon and Schuster
“There's a young Danish guy who has done a lot of work from an evolutionary perspective, Mathias Clasen. Basically, his argument is we've evolved to fear the monstrous, to be very wary of large, unknown, life-threatening forces. In art, we can play with these things in ways that allow us to feel the intensity of the horror, but in "safe mode," if you like, detached from real consequences.”

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