"Rule Number One is this: If youâ€™re open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if youâ€™re defensive, if you stubbornly persist in being right instead of learning the lesson at hand, if you stop paying attention to the tickles, the nudges, the cluesâ€”boom! Sledgehammer."

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Source : Gay Hendricks, Tinker Lindsay (2012). “The First Rule of Ten: A Tenzing Norbu Mystery”, p.7, Hay House, Inc

Gay Hendricks

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“There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.”
“To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf.”

Source : Geoff Dyer (2014). “Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence”, p.205, North Point Press
“The gym is the best place you'll ever be.”
“It's good to have critics because that's what motivates you and helps you take your game to another level, They talked about Michael Jordan and said he didn't have a jump shot. They say the same thing about me ? I can't throw the football and all that. Say whatever you want about me. It makes me strive harder.”
“If I defer the grief I will diminish the gift.”

Source : Eavan Boland (2008). “Eavan Boland: A Critical Companion : Poetry, Prose, Interviews, Reviews and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated
“The library profession is ... a profession that is informed, illuminated, radiated by a fierce and beautiful love of books. A love so overwhelming that it engulfs community after community and makes the culture of our time distinctive, individual, creative and truly of the spirit.”

Source : Frances Clarke Sayers (1950). “The Belligerent Profession: An Address Delivered as the Second in the William Warner Bishop Lectureship Series at the University of Michigan, May 22, 1948”
“Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.”

Source : "Finding the funny" by Lizzie Widdicombe, www.newyorker.com. May 24, 2010.
“Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space.”

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