7 Quotes & Sayings By Alice Koller

Alice Koller was born in Vienna and studied psychology and philosophy at the University of Vienna and at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She is also a visiting faculty member at Harvard University, Duke University, and the University of New Hampshire. Alice has published more than twenty books and is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Highest Point of Your Life. Her work is often described as inspirational and has been featured on Oprah Winfrey's O Magazine, CNN, CBS Evening News, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and The Dr Read more

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But there is saying, and there is doing, and almost always people do something better than they can talk about it, as though the minded body defeats every attempt to select out only the mind part as deserving sole responsibility for the success. Alice Koller
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I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing. Alice Koller
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I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore I must stop doing what I have been doing. Alice Koller
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Long ago I understood that it wasn't merely my being a woman that was preventing my being welcomed into the world of what I long thought of as my peers. It was that I had succeeded in an undertaking few men have even attempted: I have become myself. Alice Koller
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Work is a world apart from jobs. Work is the way you occupy your mind and hand and eye and whole body when they're informed by your imagination. Alice Koller
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Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. Alice Koller