"Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?"

-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Dysfunction Quotes #Arise Quotes #Function Quotes

“Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be whole, as many religious tranditions teach, is to make manifest a unique face of God in the world. We don't want to be irresponsible, yet for every accountant who deserts his family and sails for Tahiti, ten American men have heart attacks at their desks, after hours.”
“I don't have a girlfriend. I don't know if I have a type, but I really like girls who are driven. I really care about music, so I like it when a girl really cares about something too. Whatever it is they are into, I'll be their biggest fan.”

Source : "Hunter Hayes On Love And Heartbreak". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. February 20, 2013.
“it is in our minds that we live much of our life.”

Source : Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.23, A&C Black
“In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.”
“I want the good life, but I don't want an easy ride. What I want is to work for it, feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips.”
“Here was a period where I was particularly attacked, and in untrue ways, some people online said some things that were not true about me - but it was very hurtful. And there was like, a period of time that it was very panicky, I was very upset. And my son at the time was, I guess seven, eight months old, and I would wake up early with him and let my wife sleep.”
“People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.”
“Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you â€” the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.”

Source : "How to Frame Yourself: A Framing Memo for Occupy Wall Street" by George Lakoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2011.

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