"I believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards; personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the first few minutes are the best and not to be wasted-- my brain always seethes with ideas and life suddenly looks much better than did."

-- Dodie Smith

#Believe Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Brain Quotes

“I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits. Having gone back to Scotland to work on Outlander, I've been climbing a lot and getting out in the Highlands.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, 'Tough.”

Source : "Jaimie Alexander Exclusive Interview THOR". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 6, 2011.
“I hate walking around known as a team that loses all the time.”
“I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?”
“You can't just provide power, you also need public education.”
“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.”
“I was in a real conservative area just outside of Chicago recently. And this guy's like, 'Hey, Arj, you're from San Francisco. Are you in favor of gay marriage?' I was like, 'Well, I'd like to get to know you a little bit better first. I don't know what ever happened to buying a guy a smoothie and seeing what happens. That's how we do it back home.”
“When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater future possibilities, the urge to explore those possibilities becomes feverish compulsion. Intrinsic motivation goes through the roof. Thus flow becomes an alternative path to mastery, sans the misery.”

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