"And if joy were not on the earth, There were an end of change and birth, And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die, And in some gloomy barrow lie Folded like a frozen fly...."

-- William Butler Yeats

#Life Quotes #Change Quotes #Lying Quotes

“Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.”
“We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.”
“I waved to everybody. Some of them even waved back. They knew me, had seen me go by before, always cheerful, a big hello for everybody. He was such a nice man. Very friendly. I canâ€™t believe he did those horrible things . . .”
“It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.”
“Two late goals, both in the last twenty minutes...”
“Value investing doesn't always work. The market doesn't always agree with you. Over time, value is roughly the way the market prices stocks, but over the short term, which sometimes can be as long as two or three years, there are periods when it doesn't work. And that is a very good thing. The fact that our value approach doesn't work over periods of time is precisely the reason why it continues to work over the long term.”
“I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I believe they develop my seeing and help later on in other photos. I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.”
“The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.”

Source : John B. Watson (2017). “Behaviorism”, p.175, Routledge

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