"There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor."

-- George Santayana

#Mind Quotes #Prejudice Quotes #Nimble Quotes

“A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful moneymaker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred. A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world. I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them.”
“Fate determines who comes into our lives Our attitude and actions determine who stays in our lives.”
“Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!”
“The most obvious – and easiest! – way to gain perspective is to put your work away for a while. The truth is, we don’t know how taking a break frees up the mind, but it does: Somehow it freshens our little neurons, or perhaps it prompts the brain to create more cleverness molecules. If you can bear to let a short piece sit a week and a book-length work a month, do so. Longer is fine, too; some authors have abandoned manuscripts for years before unearthing them and realizing, ‘Hey, this isn’t bad,’ and renewing their energy for the project.”
“I have recently decided that there is no place in my head or my heart for fear anymore.”
“God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.”

Source : Bayard Rustin (2003). “Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin”, p.409, Simon and Schuster
“It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it, say it in the mic, then you leave and some other guy does all the music.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together.”

Source : R.D. Blackmore “Lorna Doone”

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