"The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise."

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Source : Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

Robert Aris Willmott

“Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.”
“It's strange when you're innocent, are you supposed to ask for forgiveness from the judge who's ready to put you away for several years? No, this wasn't even discussed.”

Source : "Pussy Riot punk band remains defiant of Putin's Russia". "60 Minutes" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. March 24, 2013.
“I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.”
“After I broke the Australian record in 2014, Audi Centre in Canberra gave me a beautiful black A1 with the number plates AI 1111, because the record I broke was 11.11 in the 100.”
“What got you here won't get you there.”

Source : Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It”, Profile Books
“I remember the initial genesis quite clearly. My interest in dreams comes from this notion of realizing that when you dream you create the world that you are perceiving, and I thought that feedback loop was pretty amazing.”
“All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.”
“I'm the kind of person that, as a listener, will go the extra mile to interpret something that's fairly meaningless, or that might be meaningless.”

Source : "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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