"A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work."

-- John Lubbock

#Motivational Quotes #Happiness Quotes #Letting Go Quotes

“When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.”
“If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.”
“Economics is concerned with what emerges, not what anyone intended.”
“Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.”
“In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.”

Source : William Whewell (1840). “Aphorisms Concerning Ideas, Science & the Language of Science”, p.25
“The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we have seen, is to deny the economic basis of social class. After all, you can hardly deride liberals as society's "elite" or present the GOP as the party of the common man if you acknowledge the existence of the corporate world the power that creates the nation's real elite, that dominates its real class system, and that wields the Republican Party as its personal political system.”
“But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain”

Source : Patrick Modiano (2014). “Dora Bruder”, p.10, Univ of California Press
“And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can - it's in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it.”

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