Ottawas Greatest Quotes & Sayings

Reaction is just that - an action you have taken before. When you "re-act," what you do is assess the incoming data, search your memory bank for the same or nearly the same experience, and act the way you did before. This is all the work of the mind, not of your soul. — Neale Donald Walsch

People think athleticism is just physical, but it's not. It's connected to the brain and how the brain can learn to execute and see a movement or not. Especially at high speed. Being athletic is not just jumping and running and being powerful. It's the nervous system that guides the body. The muscles don't decide anything. The brain decides and makes things happen. — Georges St-Pierre

Sometimes artists are control freaks and it's certainly important to have a vision, but within that vision you need to allow freedom and personality- or you light as well hire robots. — Oh Land

Carpe Diam forever after. — Jean Ferris

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre. — China Mieville

Sometimes what we want isn't what we need. — Gena Showalter

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs. — Cleveland Abbe

When you ask, Did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life. — Judy Blume

The race for excellence has no finish line. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

When people are interested in you, they ask questions. — Kim Holden

She looked for a long time at the picture, holding it out toward the window, toward the last grey light of afternoon. "It's funny," she said at last, "how sometimes you've never seen things, and still, you know them. As though you were going to see them some time, and because you were going to see them you could remember what they looked like . . . That doesn't sound right, does it?" "I — Robert Nathan