"The worlds of thought and action overlap. What you think has a way of becoming true."

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Source : Roger Von Oech (2001). “Whack on the Side of the Head”, Mjf Books

Roger von Oech

#Thinking Quotes #Way Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.”
“Well, Rickey's not one of them, so that's 49 percent right there.”
“The key question companies need to address is not 'Should we make mistakes?' but rather 'Which mistakes should we make in order to test our deeply held assumptions?'”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“I always have the best of everything.”
“The main objection to the 'scientistic' claim that physics describes the world as it is in itself is that you 'can't weed out' the human contribution. That is, the scientific image of the world, like any other, is indelibly shaped by our interests, practices and prejudices.”
“Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history. (243)”

Source : Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.243, Penguin
“Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?”
“Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.”

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