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The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place. ↗

— George Saunders

#arises #asking #become #close #constantly

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#any #conversation #hard #i #initiate

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity. ↗

— Adam Savage

#demonstrating #educators #engage #even #methodology

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#contract #conversation #i #ongoing #ordinary

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#completely #disintegrated #face #improvisational #new

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship. ↗

— Maximilian Schell

#different #each #get #goes #into

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#bad #bad news #best #best time #better

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#depth #education #found #mankind #our

I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I am satisfied with, how awkward that mark is. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#awkward #how #i #i am #i think

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment. ↗

— Sally Schneider

#book #contradiction #improvisation #moment #partly