
Conversation with Jean Martet (1 January 1928), Ch. 12
Clemenceau, The Events of His Life (1930)
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Happiness
Conversation with Jean Martet (1 January 1928), Ch. 12
Clemenceau, The Events of His Life (1930)
“A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.”
Maid in Waiting (1931), Ch. 3
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The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)
Context: The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself. He has thrown himself completely into whatever it is he is doing. A child playing a game, building a sand castle, painting a picture, is completely in what he is doing. His self-consciousness is gone; his consciousness is wholly focused outside himself.
Source: Space Chantey (1968), Ch. 6
Context: Something was working in Roadstrum's little ape head. When he had been a man he had always known when it was time for action; particularly he had always known the last moment when action was still possible. He knew now that that moment was come very near. … Then a blinding light burst upon Roadstrum, and he saw the truth of the situation. Many things Roadstrum was not, and it was sometimes wondered why he was the natural leader of all the men. He was their leader because he was a man on whom the blinding light sometimes descended.
1880s, In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire (1884)
Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), pp. 283–284