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“Not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays its often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize. Stillness is not just an indulgence for those with enough resources its a necessity for anyone who wishes to gather less visible resources.”

Source: The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere

“I think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and "wisdom" and simply personal family and local history enrich the one able to tap such information. As it is I wish I had garnered more from my grandparents and parents.”

Thinking Able Wish Parent Information Taught Locals Heritage Grandparent Local History

Author:Gary Gygax

“My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose, but little profit and pleasure can be derived from such mere sips at the well of knowledge. 'Tis a great privation to me, for my desire for information increases instead of diminishing, and I look forward with great anxiety to the time when I can improve my poor neglected mind and learn some of the few exhaustless store of things which I wish to know.”

Source: Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters

“What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.”

Want Needs Desire Wish Information Who You Are What You Want Core Loaded

Book:Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want

Source: Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want

“I wish we could understand the word expert as expressing an attitude of mind which we can all acquire rather than the collecting of information by a special caste. ... Many of us are calling for experts because, acutely conscious of the mess we are in, we want someone to pull us out.”

Want Mind Wish Attitude Special Information Calling Conscious Mess Experts Acquire Collecting Castes

Author:Mary Parker Follett

“We know that there are children out there whose parents do not take the kind of interest in their upbringing and in their existence that we would wish, but I don't think censorship is ever the solution to any problem, be it societal or be it the kind of information or ideas that you have access to.”

Thinking Knows Kind Children Ideas Problem Wish Parent Interest Existence Information Solutions Access Censorship Upbringing

Author:Judith Krug