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Letter "P" » puzzling
«Behind their lively, searching eyes one senses a doubting, a contemplative personality, always trying to make sense out of a puzzling world.»
«A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.»
«I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know -- but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.»
Author: Virginia Satir
(
Educator,
Phychologist)
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Keywords:
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Actions,
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I Say No,
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No One,
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On the Mouth,
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ways,
whatever
«Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(
Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
crossword,
crossword puzzle,
egotism,
New York,
pen,
puzzle,
puzzles,
puzzling,
The New,
The New York,
The New York Times,
York
«For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(
Writer)
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Keywords:
computer,
computer programmer,
Computer programmers,
edge,
expensive,
incredibly,
in short,
leading,
leading edge,
long time,
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puzzled,
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Something Stupid,
time machine,
useless
«And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.»
Author: Dr. Seuss
(
Cartoonist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
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Christmas,
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Grinch,
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the least bit,
till
«Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(
Philosopher,
Psychoanalyst)
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About:
Creativity
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Keywords:
be born,
concentrate,
conditions,
conflict,
creativity,
everyday,
puzzled,
puzzles,
puzzling,
tension,
tensions
«As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.»
«'Tis very puzzling on the brink Of what is called Eternity to stare, And know no more of what is here, than there»
«All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(
Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
Actions,
at last,
key,
key word,
lie in,
persons,
puzzles,
puzzling,
straightway,
The Last Man