"Many times when I stop working on a problem consciously, my mind continues to work on it below the surface. Often solutions come on me quite by surprise. I've learned over time to allow that to happen, rather than to feel that I can simply solve the problem by continuous, grueling effort."

-- Marilynne Robinson

#Effort Quotes #Mind Quotes #Surprise Quotes

“I do my best when I'm surrounded by women. I enjoyed that on the Charlie's Angels experience.”

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“Someone gave me the Love Languages book, and that has been the best book I've ever read about relationships and has helped me the most.”
“A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers.”
“I do think that people have a desire to talk about issues they may have wanted to avoid before. I've never had so many random conversations with people where they're so ready to talk about race, gender, sexual identity, or things that are happening in politics.”
“Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.”
“Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.”
“Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop.”
“Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.”

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