

“Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.”
― Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
― Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.”
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“The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.”
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“You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".”
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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