"Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts"

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Mind Quotes #Politeness Quotes #Delicate Quotes

“I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.”

Source : "Bill Nighy: 'I am not suddenly the greatest actor in the world'". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2009.
“Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a similar remark from someone else. Perhaps I have low expectations, but whenever I hear someone say, 'I liked your book,' I don't know if it's going to happen again.”
“The concept of an independent spiritual realm does not augment, for me, the magic of the mystical dimension, whereas to think of this dimension as emergent from our minds makes it all the more wondrous to be a human.”
“This is the strangest life I've ever known.”
“Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites; hate tears down and destroys. The aftermath of the â€˜fight with fireâ€™ method...is bitterness and chaos, the aftermath of the love method is reconciliation and creation of the beloved community...Yes , love-which means understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill, even for oneâ€™s enemies-is the solution”
“I believe the ability to measure, with precision, the degree of human activity's impact on the climate is subject to more debate on whether the climate is changing or whether human activity contributes to it.”
“A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.”

Source : Interview with Brian Feller, phish.net. April 18, 1993.
“How uninteresting interesting things can become.”

Source : Robert Walser (1990). “Masquerade and other stories”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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