"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."

-- Honore de Balzac

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“If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.”
“If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.29, Vintage
“I do think one should have clean feet.”
“Whether you're trying to excel in athletics or in any other field, always practice. Look, listen, learn - and practice, practice, practice. There is no substitute for work, no shortcut to the top.”
“To recognize another's inwardness is to have seen the sacred.”

Source : Peter Koestenbaum (1974). “Existential sexuality; choosing to love”
“What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you've got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety. Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“Looking back on things, the view always improves.”

Source : "Impollutable Pogo". Book by Walt Kelly, 1970.
“The person who appreciates a great work of art has the feeling that the work grows in him as he becomes involved in a prolonged capturing of emerging marginal meanings. He feels that he, too, is creative, that he himself is adding to his experience and understanding. Moreover, he wants to confront the work of art many times. He is not easily tired of it, as he would be had he read a purely logical statement. He realizes that the work of art does not merely transmit information; it produces pleasure.”

Source : Silvano Arieti (1976). “Creativity: The Magic Synthesis”, Basic Books (AZ)

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