"Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention."

-- Howard Rheingold

#Mean Quotes #Decision Quotes #Mindfulness Quotes

“Right now, nearly all the apps on Facebook take a week to build. No more.”
“I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.”

Source : Hugh Prather (1983). “Notes to Myself”, Bantam
“among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all”

Source : Tracy Kidder (2003). “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World”, p.241, Random House
“There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser.”
“Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.”

Source : Aaron Hill (1791). “Alzira: A Tragedy”, p.33
“Why is it that whenever I hear music I think Iâ€™m a bride?”
“I think that just because I'm trans, and I feel like I have to prove to people that I'm a woman sometimes, I'm never going to sacrifice my vision of femininity to make it clearer for other people. Even if it sometimes gets cloudy.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“The only thing I knew how to do was draw and play music.”

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