"Because it is possible to create - creating……" — Maria Popova
"Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever."
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Maria Popova
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13 Quotes by Maria Popova
Maria Popova has 13 quotes on this site.
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This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate…
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When people tell you who they are, Maya Angelou famously advised, believe them. Just as importantly, however, when people try…
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I think you need to be a little in love—not necessarily in a romantic sense, although that helps—but to be…
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Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.
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Our chronic discomfort with ambiguity - which, ironically, is critical to both our creativity and the richness of our lives…
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In order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to connect countless…
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Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. Ours is a culture that measures our worth as…
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Build pockets of stillness into your life.
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Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world.
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Be curious. Be constantly, consistently, indiscriminatel y curious.
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Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is…
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Be generous with your time and your resources and with giving credit and, especially, with your words. It's so much…
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More Anxiety Quotes
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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Now is the age of anxiety.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we…
— Lord Acton
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I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart…
— Alan Ball
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I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
— Clive Barker
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Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence…
— Clive Barker
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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of…
— Saint Basil
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Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.
— Bob Beauprez
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Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes…
— Martha Beck
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
— Josh Billings
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
— Aesop
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