"It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones."

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Source : Jean Webster (2004). “Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy”, p.105, Penguin

Jean Webster

#Inspirational Quotes #Happiness Quotes #Littles Quotes

“The study of motivation goes back to the Greeks. Their sports were essential to their education. They saw in sports the integration of body, mind and soul, the creation of beauty, the mastering of athletics, and the challenge of competition. A French sociologist points this out. "Sports," he wrote, was part of the education of the citizen. He was expected to engage in exercise for a whole series of reasons that had to do with the shaping of the citizen; the relation between moral good and physical good; and the growth of a person.”
“Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.”
“George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.”
“Consider it this way: what would you say if a blond homecoming queen fell in love with a short Japanese businessman? He treats her cruelly, then goes home for three years, during which time she prays to his picture and turns down marriage from a young Kennedy. Then, when she learns he has remarried, she kills herself. Now I believe you should consider this girl to be a deranged idiot, correct? But because it's an Oriental who kills herself for a Westernerâ€“ah!â€“you find it beautiful.”

Source : "M. Butterfly". Play by David Henry Hwang, February 10, 1988.
“From that day on it was as if Ren freed me from gravity. I was floating in the sky. Higher. Higher. Higher.”
“Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary.”

Source : John Yau (1989). “Radiant Silhouette: New & Selected Work, 1974-1988”, p.81, David R. Godine Publisher
“Accept your feelings. Know your purpose. And do what needs to be done.”
“Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly science fiction. Furthermore, so little emerging thought and technology is employed by sf writers today that the genre is lagging far behind reality both in the cosmology area and the technology area: sf is no longer a place to experiment, but is now very derivative.”

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