"It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it."

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Source : Elias Canetti (1962). “Crowds and power: Masse und Macht]”

Elias Canetti

#Thinking Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I feel as though I am trying to describe a three-dimensional experience while living in a two-dimension world. The appropriate words, descriptions, and concepts don't even exist in our current language. I have subsequently read the accounts of other people's near-death experiences and their portrayals of heaven and I am able to see the same limitations in their descriptions and vocabulary that I see in my own.”
“Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.”
“I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.”
“Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.”
“I carry a golf ball to put under my feet when they get tight, and a Thera-Band for general stretching.”
“I think the American people pretty well understand that radical Islam has an agenda that includes us.”
“The screenplay is a great document because it makes you have many discussions prior to actually being on the floor.”
“Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.”

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