I have bad days. Sometimes I have a lot of bad days. By and large, I think most people fall into a… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
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Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Forgiveness does not mean that we have to continue to relate to those who have done us harm. In some cases the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Students of the psychedelic realm know that one's expectations are a powerful determinant of the direction, content, and outcome of the experience.… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
The next four years, though, you still have to abide by the oversight process that is there to prevent this kind of… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying.… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Suzanna Collins was very supportive, but we very much wanted her blessing on casting. In production, she visited us once, but she… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
All my other movies have the same process. Same approach. Same amount of changes. Everything. Things being made up on the fly.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. In our judgment, it was… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
If you work in the city long enough, it begins to deal with you on a personal level. Streets reveal their moods.… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't predict the future, and you've got to go with your gut on these things, and I'm sure if you speak… — Thomas Middleditch Copy Share Image
Because I was independent for such a long time, and I was always just feeding my fans - every month, I'd be… — Tink Copy Share Image
As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What is happening in politics today is a similar process to what happened in the medical world a few decades ago: realizing… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
People are always going to find fault with anything you do, any process that you're a part of. The creative process means… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
If you want to achieve your objectives, you have to be prepared for a daily dose of pain or discomfort. At first,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I… — Ruben Santiago-Hudson Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to talented, creative people who often just don't know how to support themselves - they're more focused on their work… — Mark Parker Copy Share Image
Once we have a sense of how long a decision should take, we generally should delay the moment of decision until the… — Frank Partnoy Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge is self-financing 100% of everything. Recording costs, studio time, engineer fees, travel costs are all a part of the… — Mya Copy Share Image
I have no one else involved in the writing process. I would hate to feel that I was going into the studio… — Marika Hackman Copy Share Image
'Iron Man 3' was very educational. There's a train that starts moving which already has so many moving parts, and it's a… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way… — Geoff Nicholson Copy Share Image
Jazz at Lincoln Center is something that is very necessary for the creative process. There's a couple of brothers running around New… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
Usually when I start a new project there's a fear of the unknown; maybe it's a band I've never been in the… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
You've got the whole stuff with transgender toilets and stuff like that - that's no way for a government to behave. We're… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The philosopher of science is not much interested in the thought processes which lead to scientific discoveries; he looks for a logical… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
