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“Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.”

Art Hope Causes Situation Limits Findings Originals Temporary Misfortunes Helplessness

Book:Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

Source: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten by most people; or else they are guarded in some secret place of memory because they were too much like visitations by the gods to be mixed with everyday thinking.”

People Thinking World Moments Memories Secret Too Much Poet Findings Originals Everyday Forgotten Familiar Unfamiliar Outside World Guarded Visitation Secret Places

Book:The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men: Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis

Source: The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men: Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis

“The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.”

People Thinking Knows Body Rooms Wife Findings Originals Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Castles

Author:Alice Hoffman

“I grew up as a fan of the original Star Trek series. When I was in middle school, I think in the 6th grade, I remember going to a book fair and finding a book called The Making of Star Trek, by Stephen Whitfield, and I grabbed it and took and home and just devoured it, over and over again. It was a really influential book. It was very nuts and bolts.”

Thinking Book Home School Remember Stars Fans Middle Grew Findings Grew Up Fairs Originals Series Grades Nuts Influential Bolts Middle School Nuts And Bolts Original Star Trek

Author:Ronald D. Moore

“It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, empathetic musicians, who are great individually but who also have a great sense for cooperation and collaboration, great listeners as well as great players.”

Wells Strong Creative Player Findings Musician Originals Collaboration Cooperation Composer Listeners Flexible Empathetic Cooperation And Collaboration

Author:Joshua Redman

“I'm not a network executive, but it seems to be a time when networks take more of a gamble with higher-concept shows. And so, it's fun to be on something that's original, that's finding viewership, that's finding a great audience, and really distinguishing itself. Summer's a great place to do that.”

Shows Seems Fun Audience Higher Findings Summer Concepts Originals Executives Gamble

Author:James Wolk

“Research is fundamental; finding as much as you can and never giving up. I love the research. It is my "precise time". Not just for interviews but of footage, photographs never seen before. It is a painstaking process that satisfies me. The research never ends. I was still researching while I was promoting the Diana Vreeland book. I love reading books and going to original sources.”

“Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth.”

Morning Events Personality Birth Findings Absolutes Originals Oneself Awakening Proof Unprecedented Saddles Finding Oneself

Book:Bend Sinister

Source: Bend Sinister

“Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.”

Believe Mean Long Doe Dark Struggle Findings Doctors Originals Believe In God Really Mean

Book:Nobel Prize Library

Source: Nobel Prize Library

“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”

Stories Voice Heard Findings Originals Distinctive

Author:John Grisham

“And then certainly, whatsoever you do - your character, your behaviour - is yours, authentically yours. It has your signature on it. Then you are not a carbon copy, you are original. The Zen people call it finding the original face.”

People Character Faces Meditation Findings Originals Copies Behaviour Carbon Signatures

Author:Rajneesh

“Hollywood has to start finding more original stuff They've got to start by not depending on, 'What can we churn back out? How can we regurgitate this?' That's why I want to redo the feel of Transformers. That's why I wanted to start with a new cast. You want it to feel fresh, and you want to make it feel different than the other three.”

Want Feels Different Wanted Three Stuff Findings Hollywood Originals Casts Redos

Author:Michael Bay