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“I think to the degree writers are serious, there is a greater tendency for them to write to themselves, because they're trying to compose their own thoughts. They are trying to find out what is in their minds, which is the great mystery. Finding out who you are, what is in your head, and what kind of companion you are to yourself in the course of life. I do think people have very profound lives of which they say virtually nothing.”

People Thinking Writing Trying Mind Kind Courses Greater Mystery Serious Degrees Findings Who You Are Profound Tendencies Companion Course Of Life

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.”

Needs Humans Soul Facts Spirit Certain Universe Emotion Greater Expression Despair Findings Profound Boredom Sublime Human Spirit Boundless Human Emotions

Author:Giacomo Leopardi

“It is you and clean, flowing water. It is you, inquisitive, in a wild world that is older than man, seeking greater understanding and finding not only an endless interest but a tranquility that comes, most of the time, to all nature?s wild creatures.”

Men World Understanding Interest Water Greater Sea Creatures Findings Rivers Clean Fishes Seeking Endless Boat Lakes Fishing Tranquility Inquisitive Flowing Water Wild Creatures Wild World

Book:Trout on a fly

Source: Trout on a fly

“I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.”

“time is as adhesive as love, and the more time you spend with someone the greater the likelihood of finding yourself with a permanent sort of thing to deal with that people casually refer to as 'friendship,' as if that were the end of the matter.”

People Ifs Ends Matter Friendship Deals Greater Findings Permanent Finding Yourself More Time Likelihood Adhesive

Book:Under the 82nd Airborne: Stories

Source: Under the 82nd Airborne: Stories

“the female view that one strengthens oneself by strengthening others is finding greater acceptance, and female values of inclusion and connection are emerging as valuable leadership qualities.”

Values Leadership Views Quality Greater Acceptance Findings Female Connections Oneself Valuable Inclusion Emerging Strengthening Leadership Qualities

Book:The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership

Source: The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership

“Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes”

Attention Brain Creativity Greater Findings Solutions Built Innovation Patterns Attributes Mechanism

Book:Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

Source: Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

“In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.”

Kind Made Used Loss Effort Greater Findings Consequence England Saving Useless Grass Ecology Worms Corn New England Mischievous Blackbirds

Book:A Benjamin Franklin Reader

Source: A Benjamin Franklin Reader

“In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding "truth": dogma, authority, and revelation. Science does find truth, faith does not.”

Way Doe Ends Greater Authority Findings Revelations Jealous Dogma Theologian

Author:Jerry A. Coyne

“There's really only one true path to recovery that's using the 12 step program and finding a belief in something greater than yourself (spirituality).”

Spirituality Belief Steps Path Greater Findings Program Recovery 12 Step

Author:Nikki Sixx

“Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.”

People Firsts Wonder Greater Findings Novelists Pace First Love

Author:C. S. Lewis