Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - December 06, 2024
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
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Brian Eno, Wired 1/99, p. 176  
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
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Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003  
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.
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Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)  
We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.
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Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)  

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