"Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment."

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Marshall McLuhan

#Environment Quotes #Boundaries Quotes

“Concentration's like a shower. You don't turn it on until you want to bathe... You don't walk out of the shower and leave it running. You turn it off, you turn it on... It has to be fresh and ready when you need it.”
“That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.”

Source : Raymond Carver (2015). “Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose”, p.102, Vintage
“All s, like all human beings, get many things wrong. Ronald Reagan's extraordinary achievement as of the U.S. was to succeed in getting the two biggest challenges of his time right: defeating the Soviet Union and reviving the American economy and spirit. Neither of those achievements was inevitable. Both were fiercely opposed at the time. But he persisted; his visionary focus matched only by a gentleness of character and a brilliance of rhetoric.”
“There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.”
“true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own hopes or conceptual limitations.”
“It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.”

Source : Ada Leverson (1951). “The limit”
“As a notorious multi-tasker, I love exercise that serves several purposes.”
“If you want to be entertained, go and see Hanson.”

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