"You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it."

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Source : Adam Braun (2014). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

Adam Braun

#Losing Quotes #Realizing Quotes #Values Quotes

“You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness, Like resignation to the end, Always the end.”

Source : Song: Somebody That I Used to Know, Album: Making Mirrors, 2011
“Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.”
“The goal isnâ€™t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasnâ€™t before.”
“President Karzai is an incredibly kind and decent man. I had the pleasure of meeting him, and he genuinely cares for his people. But I think he had too much of a tendency to want to rule by listening to all voices at all times.”
“Usually, I start thinking about my next novel soon after completing the latest, and it can take anywhere from a month to 6 months to come up with a story.”
“Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques and methods, we can have the best possible liturgy, but we have not worshiped the Lord until Spirit touches spirit.”
“We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to identify with a character's pain, we might then also more easily conceive of others identifying with their own. This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside. It might just be that simple.”
“I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.”

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