"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."

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Source : "The Zürau Aphorisms". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

Franz Kafka

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“I believe that a concept that may have some flaws is nonetheless important as a tool to critique abuses on all sides of the political spectrum. In the end, I think that a more useful 'universal' concept than that of a 'right', though, is a 'need'.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don't get the best work from people if you're guiding them versus them guiding themselves.”

Source : "Mashable's Pete Cashmore on Persistence". Interview with Teri Evans, www.entrepreneur.com. May 10, 2011.
“Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.”
“Average is a failing plan! Average doesn't work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.”

Source : FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Apr 25, 2017
“Well, I'm very stubborn. I think I have common sense; I'm probably at times a bit tunnel-visioned, but I'm strong.”
“Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.”
“Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.”
“The obligation d'âme meant that his only allegiance was to Felix, making them a separate kingdom of two, with Felix as king and Mildmay as ministers, army, and populace all combined in one. A stormy little kingdom, I thought, with periodic flare-ups of civil war and a magnificently unstable government. And I was glad I wasn’t a citizen of it.”

Source : Sarah Monette (2008). “The Mirador”, p.80, Penguin

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