"Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world"

-- Miyamoto Musashi

#Thinking Quotes #World Quotes

“Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment.”
“The only factor that poses a genuine challenge to the current order is the willingness of human beings to reject the injustice and irrationality of this economy, and stand up for something better. Capitalism will not fall-rather, it must be pushed.”

Source : "Economics For Everyone". Book by Jim Stanford, 2008.
“...that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything - that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it - and its choice to be there - are gone.”

Source : Barbara Hambly (1999). “Winterlands”, Del Rey
“You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You are only as good as the team you have behind you.”
“Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, 'What do you want?' Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too.”
“A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.”

Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.”
“Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.”

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