"All of us have worries. We worry because we are intelligent beings. Intelligence predicts, that is its essence; the same intelligence that allows us to plan, hope, imagine, and hypothesize also allows us to worry and anticipate negative outcomes. (164)"

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Source : "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science". Book by Norman Doidge, 2007.

Norman Doidge

#Intelligent Quotes #Essence Quotes #Worry Quotes

“You know at this point you have everything you need. It's available to you from the inside and you see you are supported in many ways. You realize that there is more to this dimension, to this reality, than you have seen before. You see you are being taken care of, you are being loved, you are being looked after. All that's needed is to go inside, become still and listen.”
“There's really no reason film and digital can't happily co-exist and benefit from one another. Anyone who tells you otherwise is just trying to sell you something.”

Source : Source: www.notcoming.com
“Hate speech is in the ear of the beholder.”

Source : "When Christians become a 'hated minority'" by John Blake, religion.blogs.cnn.com. May 5, 2013.
“Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three jokes for stand-up. Later, I've finally allowed myself to relax quite a bit, to think I can do it because I've done it in the past. The pressure to come up with the material is the same but the anxiety about whether I can do it is gone.”
“I've been married over 50 years of my life.”
“Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.”
“It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.”

Source : Tig Notaro (2016). “I'm Just a Person: My year of death, cancer and epiphany”, p.184, Pan Macmillan
“A lot of people just love music, especially a lot of aspiring artists. They just want to jump in and start making music. They don't really take time to grow and appreciate the craft.”

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