"Anytime youâ€™re gonna grow, youâ€™re gonna lose something. Youâ€™re losing what youâ€™re hanging onto to keep safe. Youâ€™re losing habits that youâ€™re comfortable with, youâ€™re losing familiarity."

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James Hillman

#Safe Quotes #Losing Quotes #Habit Quotes

“Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.' That is the tone of innocence.”

Source : Whittaker Chambers (1952). “Witness”
“One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will realize that having more and more won't solve the problem, and happiness does not lie in possessions, or even relationships: The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.”
“Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current list, by contrast, sounds like a cross between a rap sheet and the seven deadly sins.”
“I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.”

Source : "Mozart of film music" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.
“Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions from vague or subjective input. The mind becomes aware without the direct intervention of reasoning. Once you can imagine something you can begin the process of creating it. Executives use intuition to make many product, investment, and hiring decisions, even if they deny it. Success in business may depend on an accurate gut.”

Source : Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.38, Simon and Schuster
“Say someone tells me their name - that name can turn into a taste or a color and that's how I categorize it in my mind. It's an easy way of categorizing things.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.”
“Options are good. Keeps people choosing.”

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