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“It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.”

People Ifs Needs Years Important Whole My Own Projects Spending

Author:Mary McDonnell

“I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth.”

“In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.”

“My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside... the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.”

World Soul Self Whole Feelings Fall My Own Existence Cases Elements Circles Whole World Sensations Surround Peculiar Spheres My Thoughts Opaque

Author:F. H. Bradley

“The work I do to let go of my suffering diminishes the suffering of the whole universe. When I have room for my own pain, I have room for the pain of others. Only then can I be transformed into joy. As I heal, the Earth heals.”

Whole Earth Pain Joy Suffering Universe My Own Rooms Healing Letting Go Heal Transformed Diminish

Author:Christiane Northrup

“I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.”

Ifs Knows Looks Doe Whole Literature Stuff My Own Proud Highest Regard Flaws Right Words

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.”

Whole My Own Periods Understood American History My Own Life

Book:A Little House sampler

Source: A Little House sampler

“Los Angeles was a place after my own heart. The people were hospitable. The country had the same attraction for me that it had for the Indians who originally chose this spot as their place to live. The Los Angeles River was a beautiful, limpid little stream, with willows on its banks. It was so attractive to me that it at once became something about which my whole scheme of life was woven, I loved it so much.”

People Heart Littles Country Whole Beautiful My Own Rivers Attraction Spots Attractive Streams Los Angeles Schemes Woven Places To Live

Author:William Mulholland

“I know I play into that image out there, but I try to say it is a fantasy. I look at my own pictures and wish I could look like that. There are probably five people in this whole entire world who actually look like that.”

People Knows World Trying Looks Play Whole Wish My Own Fantasy Five

Author:Cindy Margolis

“An illustrator in my own mind - and this is not a truth of any kind - is someone who so falls in love with writing that he wishes he had written it, and the closest he can get to is illustrating it. And the next thing you learn, you have to find something unique in this book, which perhaps even the author was not entirely aware of. And that's what you hold on to, and that's what you add to the pictures: a whole Other Story that you believe in, that you think is there.”

Thinking Writing Mind Believe Kind Book Whole Stories Fall Next Wish My Own Written Unique Add Falling In Love Closest Illustrators Illustrating

Author:Maurice Sendak

“He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it be hard to do, harder than to learn any Language, or Science; yet, when I shall have set down my own reading orderly, and perspicuously, the pains left another, will be only to consider, if he also find not the same in himself. For this kind of Doctrine, admitteth no other Demonstration.”

Ifs Men Kind Hard Whole Pain Reading Left Language Nations My Own Mankind Particular Harder Doctrine Demonstration Orderly

Book:Leviathan - Revised Edition

Source: Leviathan - Revised Edition

“It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.”

People Ifs Knows Humans May Whole My Own Conditions Loneliness Painting Communication Reflection Human Condition Lack Of Communication

Author:Edward Hopper

“I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with Nature and with men. And when you take weeds out of a garden it gives you room to grow flowers. So, every time I lost a little self-satisfaction, or arrogance, I could plant some broadness or love of my own in its place, and after a while the garden of my mind began to bloom and be fragrant and I found myself better equipped for my work and more useful to others as a consequence.”