"Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence."

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Martin Seligman

#Hope Quotes #Two Quotes #Style Quotes

“Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies, Langdon viewed the world as a web of profoundly intertwined histories and events. The connections may be invisible, he often preached to his symbology classes at Harvard, but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface.”
“If I weren't a theatre designer, I wouldn't be any other kind of designer. Design is interesting to me as it relates to narrative: the design has to support the narrative. Storytelling is the most important thing.”
“The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.”

Source : Jamie Ford (2014). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and Songs of Willow Frost: Two Bestselling Novels: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Songs of Willow Frost”, p.260, Ballantine Books
“Royce's eyes narrowed in discouragement at the thoght of having to sing to jenny. his deep bariton voice would surely bring every hound for miles to yap and nip at his heels.”
“The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.”
“In revolutionary times the rich are always the people who are most afraid.”
“Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.”
“I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.”

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