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"The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish."
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"It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art."
Art
"I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art."
Art
"I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art."
Art
"For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going."
Cause
"One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism."
Philosophy
"We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story."
Life
"I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader."
Desire
"Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se."
Society
"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"
Fact
"When people call it that I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you just get like really sad, you get quiet and melancholy and just like sit quietly by the window sighing or just lying around. A state of not caring about anything. A kind of blue kind of peaceful state."
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"The Enlightened one (Gnani Purush) never wastes his time in counting money, focus of the awareness of the self (upayog) is wasted in doing this. One's focused awareness (upayog) is where he has 'interest'!"
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"A set and concrete term of attaining a plan mobilizes a man to fulfill it."
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Personal Development
"Don't invest everything in another man's calling."
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Personal Development
"Concentrate less on people and much on purpose. People can put your purpose in disarray, your purpose can put people in disarray."
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Personal Development
"The more spiritually aware you become the more you will focus on your own self and less on others."
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"When the mind is steady, it will not create any vibrations, and therefore one will get the result. Along with that, if there is purity of chit, then one will surely be able to get his work done."
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"Everything you need comes into focus when you abandon the unneeded."
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Personal Development
"Fix your gazes on the invisible."
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Personal Development
"Stay focused! Know where you are heading towards in life with your life! People going somewhere don't just go anywhere!"
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Personal Development
"You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority."
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Personal Development
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