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The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources…
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I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to…
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But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is…
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It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was…
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There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous.…
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When I am high I couldn't worry about money of I tried. So I don't. The money will come from from somewhere;…
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Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving…
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I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that…
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I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to…
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Others would say to me, 'It is only temporary, it will pass, you will get over it,' but of course they had…
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Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and…
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Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.
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The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the…
— Jonathan Swift
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Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and…
— Bennett Cerf
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Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.
— Ty Cobb
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Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness. The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of…
— Bill Walton
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What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you…
— Ray Bradbury
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Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.
— Don Meyer
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I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley
— Charles Darwin
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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
— Don Meyer
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Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share…
— Steven Johnson
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Let us be ashamed of our slowness in thanking God when He gives, and of our quickness in grumbling at Him when…
— Nikolaj Velimirovic
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Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.
— Denise Levertov
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