"I think that was one of the biggest revelations is that leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder."

-- Brigid Schulte

#Eye Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Leisure Quotes

“The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.”

Source : Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.342, Macmillan
“In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.”
“My Dad played the trombone and I think my Mom played the piano for about two years. It is very self-driven. They pushed me to do piano lessons, but they were never forceful about anything. They never pushed me to sing or anything, it was something that I did myself.”
“I've had job stability for years at a time. You really develop great relationships with the people you work with.”
“We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.”

Source : “'I Can’t Talk Fellowship': Lessons From the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in the Wake of the BP Oil Disaster" by Cherri Foytlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2013.
“But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.”
“I can't die but once.”

Source : "The Underground Railroad". Book by Charles L. Blockson, 1987.
“Dads are the appendix of humanity. They should just be taken out before they start causing problems.”

Source : Nick Burd (2009). “The Vast Fields of Ordinary”, p.94, Penguin

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