"TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not. People think they have to have an answer for everything because the guys on TV have an answer for everything. But it's bullsh**t! Reflection is crucial."

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Source : "Alan Arkin: Random Advice from an Older Gentleman" by Alan Arkin, www.esquire.com. January 31, 2013.

Alan Arkin

#Taken Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Life wouldnâ€™t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.”
“If you tell yourself there is a path you need to travel, that it will take time to get where you want to go-that there is a distance between you and the fully realized state-then the path can become a way of holding liberation at arm's length.”

Source : Jan Frazier, Barbi Schulick (2007). “When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening”, p.190, Weiser Books
“In my hands the means... In my heart the will.”
“Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero.”
“Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.”
“You may study with the highest teachers, but you will find no one but yourself teaching you. You may travel the world over, yet find nothing but yourself, reflected the world over. So if you now find yourself in a cell, take heart that of all the teachers in the world, out of all the places in the world, you still have with you the only ultimate ingredient of your journey: yourself.”
“I believe the human spirit is indomitable...”
“There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.”

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