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Paul Laffoley

Paul Laffoley

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Birthplace Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Educated At Harvard University, Brown University

Nationality United States Of America

Occupations Diarist, Artist, Architect

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What we call the non-revelatory aspects of nature is simply what I call the bureaucracy of biology, which other people call evolution. Our brains are these valves where we only let a little bit through. I think that it's basically nature doing that. In other words it's the bureaucracy of biology that won't let us have the whole thing.

— Paul Laffoley, Disinformation: The Interviews: Uncut & Uncensored

Biology Potential Don’t Let It All Through The Bureaucracy of Biology

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Since biological organisms are constructed from molecules, and those molecules from atoms, and the atoms from elementary particles — all obeying the laws of quantum mechanics — it might even be argued that research on human organizations is merely a rather baroque branch of physics.

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It was just what I, and every other egotistical human being, longs to hear. You’re not weird; the rest of the world is.

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I thought the fart was a human thing. It's something to do with like, arse cheeks, or whatever.

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Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

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Success is not the end of the journey. It is the beginning of the expression of your infinite potential.

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My ability to conquer my challenges is limitless; my potential to succeed is infinite.

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On your face there is something like the promise of a storm: one day passion will burn it to the bone.

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At the end of the day, life’s about realising one’s human potential. I don’t know if I’ve realised mine, but I’ve certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

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Never underestimate a person’s potential for recovery.

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The only way to make peace with who you are is to make peace with your past. Explore your childhood. Your history. It brought you here and it made you who you are; but is this you at your fullest potential? Do you see love in everything? Is this your purpose?

— Rachel Brathen, @yoga_girl

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The things that make us the most jealous or envious are usually the things that we feel we're not living up to within ourselves.

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I know we're going to make something of this great longing called life.

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You are not your past. Although you are changed and shaped by past experiences who you were yesterday does not control the person you have the potential to become tomorrow.

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The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure.

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Most of us are capable of more than we believe.

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The promise I need you to make is this: We’ll see each other tomorrow.

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Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

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There are infinite worlds out there, where anything that can happen does happen.

— Richard, The Beach

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Some were better than others, but they all had one thing in common: they were terrible.

— Shane Dawson, It Gets Worse: A Collection of Essays

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Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

— Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

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There are fields inside me, there are flowers growing and rivers flowing to oceans with no end.

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Your potential, the absolute best you’re capable of—that’s the metric to measure yourself against. Your standards are. Winning is not enough. People can get lucky and win. People can be assholes and win. Anyone can win. But not everyone is the best possible version of themselves. — Ryan Holiday

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— Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

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I know all your graces will someday flower in a sweet sunshower.

— Chris Cornell, Sunshower - Great Expectations Soundtrack (Great Expectations)

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My idea of myself relates to landscape's unimagined achievement.

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Life is so fleeting. So fragile. Every breath of potential may not last.

— Tim Schlattmann, Dexter, Season 1: Return to Sender

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It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.

— Dr. Suess, The Lorax

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Talent is sort of a dark gift, that talent is its own expectation: it is there from the start and either lived up to or lost.

— David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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Potential has a shelf life.

— Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future. And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction remaining a perpetual possibility only in a world of speculation.

— T. S. Eliot, The Four Quartets

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You will break someone’s heart if you fall in love with someone’s potential and then blame them for not living up to it. You will break someone’s heart if you fall in love with the changed version of them you have in your head, instead of the version they are, right now, in this moment.

— Jamie Varon, How To Break Someone’s Heart

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Infinite beauty cannot be conceived by a finite mind.

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