7 Quotes & Sayings By M

M. is a writer, editor, publisher, and entrepreneur. She was born in the former USSR, where she lived for 10 years. She escaped to the USA in 1991 Read more

Her writing can be found in The Guardian (UK), The Los Angeles Times, and The Huffington Post among other publications.

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When you gaze out on a quiet, peaceful meadow, next to a still pond, under a motionless blue sky, you wonder how the noisy, busy cacophony of life could have arisen from such silent, motionless beginning. M..
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We tend to think of imagination and foresight like we are prone to think of life (sometimes) -- as an inscrutable flash of something from the outside that magically takes us over some large boundary in one atomic step. We even call it a flash (of insight), a eureka moment, a light bulb in our heads that suddenly turns on. But if you reflect on this phenomenon for a moment, you know you don't go suddenly from a blank mind to a fully formed solution. You were already thinking about the problem, and other near solutions that don't work, when suddenly you see a new connection that enables you to reuse familiar things on a novel way. Insight comes in small increments, leveraging what was already there. M..
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Life  doesn't  happen  suddenly.  It fades  in. M..
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Our once simple, unified meaning of life is being shattered into many, sometimes competing, concepts. M..
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The meaning of life is more than a definition of life. M..
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We are always seeking it, never finding it. M..