"A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation."

-- James Freeman Clarke

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“When you parent, it's crucial you realize you aren't raising a mini-me, but a spirit throbbing with its own signature. For this reason, it's important to separate who you are from who each of your children is. Children aren't ours to possess or own in any way. When we know this in the depths of our soul, we tailor our raising of them to their needs, rather than molding them to fit our needs.”

Source : "The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children". Book by Shefali Tsabary, November 1, 2010.
“How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change”
“My approach is to 100 percent get the concept and the visual right. Get the client to love the space. Once they love the space, everything's possible.”

Source : "What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.
“I think a lot of women feel like they have to choose between making movies or making a family.”
“There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.”
“All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.”
“Some pianists seem to really remember the keys and not so much the notes they play. They want to learn until it's a physical habit that can be replicated. For pianists, this is much more of a problem than for other instruments, like the violin, where you actually have to think of the pitch.”
“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.”

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