"The maddening thing for someone with a Western scientific turn of mind is that itâ€™s not whatâ€™s in your pack that separates the quick from the dead. Itâ€™s not even whatâ€™s in your mind. Corny as it sounds, itâ€™s whatâ€™s in your heart."

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Source : Laurence Gonzales (2017). “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

Laurence Gonzales

#Heart Quotes #Mind Quotes #Sound Quotes

“I went to college to be a jock and to play on the baseball team. And then, I got cut and realized that that was it for that. I was really small. The other guys were really big, on that team. I was a bit of a theater nerd, and I was an art history major.”
“The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The Englishman stands firmly on his feet, but he who merely does this never advances. The American's disposition is to step forward even at the risk of a fall.”
“For the loot, honey, for the loot.”
“Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.”
“As far back as I can ever remember, without really knowing it I wanted to be an actor. I was always dressing up, you know, playing pretend, putting on mothers hats and things. I'm sure Freud would have something to say about that. It was very much in my blood.”
“In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it.”
“Every successful business creates or provides something of value that other people want or need at a price they're willing to pay, in a way that satisfies the purchaser's needs and expectations and provides the business sufficient revenue to make it worthwhile for the owners to continue operation.”

Source : "The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business". Book by Josh Kaufman, August 28, 2012.
“At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.”

Source : "Joining the Jackals". www.weeklystandard.com. June 2, 2010.

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