"One of the reasons people get old - lose their aliveness - is that they get weighed down by all of their stuff."

-- Richard Leider

#People Quotes #Coaching Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.”
“Neither evolution nor creation qualifies as a scientific theory.”
“The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.”

Source : "Pogo". Comic strip by Walt Kelly, 1948 - 1975.
“At the beginning of each lecture I say, 'Here's a set of events unexplainable by common sense, and I promise you'll be able to solve this mystery at the end of class.'”
“I'm afraid my glass is no longer half full because I drank most of it.”

Source : Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.38, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage.”
“To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it.”
“The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.”

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