"I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful."

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Source : Q&A, www.pbs.org. January 16, 2007.

Bonnie Bassler

#Successful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Keys Quotes

“And since time sets its own tempo, like a heartbeat or an ebb tide, timepieces don't really keep time. They just keep up with it, if they're able.”
“When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?”
“I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.”
“Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.”
“To be honest, because there's loud music in my ears probably three hours a day, between sound check and the show, I listen to podcasts more than I listen to music on the road.”
“Most of us know someone who would say, 'If you want to be my friend, you'll have to accept my values.' A true friend doesn't ask us to choose between the gospel and his or her friendship. ... A true friend strengthens us to stay on the strait and narrow path.”
“But to me the notion that spirituality is separate from the rest of life does not allow for a practical approach to living a life that has extraordinary quality.”
“By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors.”

Source : "Two in the Bush". Book by Gerald Durrell, 1966.

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