Antidote Quotes - Page 14

• To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass.

  Anne Lamott

  Powerful, Mind, Ass

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.102, Anchor

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• Courage is the antidote to danger.

  Erle Stanley Gardner

  Danger

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• My psychiatrist prescribed a game of golf as an antidote to the feelings of euphoria I experience from time to time.

  Bruce Lansky

  Golf, Games, Feelings

  Bruce Lansky (2011). “Golf, It's Just a Game: The Best Quotes & Cartoons About Golf”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Empathy is the antidote to shame.

  Brené Brown

  Empathy, Shame

  "Brené Brown Talks to The Shriver Report: The Power of Shame on Women Living on the Brink". Interview with Cara P. Lemieux, shriverreport.org. February 5, 2014.

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• I will keep a substantial long exposure to gold -- which serves as a Jelly Donut antidote for my portfolio. While I'd love for our leaders to adopt sensible policies that would reduce the tail risks so that I could sell our gold, one nice thing about gold is that it doesn't even have quarterly conference calls.

  David Einhorn

  Nice, Long, Leader

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• The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as the one country where it is unnecessary to have a past, what is a luxury for the nation as a whole becomes a prime social necessity for the Negro. For him, a group tradition must supply compensation for persecution, and pride of race the antidote for prejudice. History must restore what slavery took away, for it is the social damage of slavery that the present generation must repair and offset.

  Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

  Country, Pride, Past

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