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When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on. Anthony de Mello
For the first time driving that day I could feel the motion of the Earth. The Earth rushing through the emptiness of space. Spinning on its axis but they say you don't feel it, you can't experience it. But to feel it is to be scared and happy at once and to know that nothing matters but that you do what you want to do and what you do you are. And I knew I was moving into the future. There is not PAST anybody can get to, to alter things or ever to know what those things were but there is... Joyce Carol Oates
Bill Watterson quote: "People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never..."
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children. Bill Watterson
The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own, through their no doubt lavish spending, upon those who stand below them on the economic ladder. Notice that the metaphor is not that of a gushing waterfall but of a leaking tap: even the most optimistic endorsers of this concept do not picture very much real flow, as their language reveals" pg. 102. Margaret Atwood
I forget how many thousand eggs go wrong for one codfish that gets hatched. But as Berkeley said long ago, it is idle to censure the creation as wasteful if you believe in a creator who has unlimited stuff to play with. Frederick Pollock
For a real glimpse into an almost vanished world, one should look...at a scorpion who so obviously has no business lingering into the twentieth century. He is not shaped like a spider and he has too many legs to be an insect. Plainly, he is a discontinued model--still running but very difficult, one imagines, to get spare parts for. Joseph Wood Krutch
Rex Stout quote: "a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist..."
...a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. Rex Stout
Jane Austen quote: "A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset..."
A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when betterbehavior is expected of them. Jane Austen
David Foster Wallace quote: "Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is..."
Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself. David Foster Wallace
Armies have spent a lot of time and effort training their soldiers not to think of the enemy as human beings. It’s so much easier to kill them if you think of them as dangerous animals. The trouble is, war isn’t about killing. It’s about getting the enemy to stop resisting your will. Like training a dog not to bite. Punishing him leaves you with a beaten dog. Killing him is a permanent solution, but you’ve got no dog. If you can understand why he’s biting and remove the conditions that... Orson Scott Card
It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn't actually get you anywhere. Douglas Adams
Jane Wagner quote: "I worry whoever thought up the term 'quality control' thought..."
I worry whoever thought up the term 'quality control' thought if we didn't control it, it would get out of hand. Jane Wagner
I hope they don't hang you, precious, by that sweet neck. Yes, angel, I'm gonna send you over. The chances are you'll get off with life. That means if you're a good girl, you'll be out in 20 years. I'll be waiting for you. If they hang you, I'll always remember you. (Sam Spade to Brigid O'Shaughnessy) Dashiell Hammett
Joni Mitchell quote: "We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves..."
We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden. Joni Mitchell
Albert Camus quote: "You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know..."
You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about. Albert Camus

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