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- We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
- Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
- Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.
- Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
- The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.
- Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
- The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled, the more I gain.
- Susan B. Anthony (1820 - 1906)
- The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.
- Salma Hayek, Conversation with Salma Hayek, 2002
- People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
- Salma Hayek
- The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
- Roseanne Barr
- Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.
- Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho\'s weblog, 03-23-06
- The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers. This is not to say that we should abandon every goal endorsed by society; rather, it means that, in addition to or instead of the goals others use to bribe us with, we develop a set of our own.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
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