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I hear many people share with me that they just 'have to do this thing' before they can relax and slow down.

The truth is that taking the time to be still and reflective actually increases productivity and gives more joy to what you're doing when it's time to take action again.


Maria Erving

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MARIA BAMFORD I can pinpoint that as the single happiest moment of my life, because I realized then that Mom would...
MARIA SEMPLE I love that vision-board thing where you cut out pictures that resonate with you so they'll mani...
MARIA BAMFORD I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I s...
MARIA MONK We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothin...
MARIA MONTESSORI Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
MARIA EDGEWORTH I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no su...
MARIA BARTIROMO If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the ...
MARIA MONTESSORI Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable ...
MARIA MONTESSORI Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to ...
MARIA SHARAPOVA I want my handbags and my shoes to be stylish but I want to make sure that they're versatile. I ...
MARIA SHARAPOVA She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful....
MARIA MONK Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
MARIA MONTESSORI The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an eve...
MARIA MONTESSORI When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had ...
MARIA CALLAS Thank you for giving myself back to me, now I am free
MARIA KOSZLER If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the m...
MARIA MONTESSORI The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies.
MARIA BROOKS If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno...
MARIA MONTESSORI The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within th...
MARIA MONTESSORI The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of anim...
MARIA MONTESSORI I suppose I could admire all these slow Seattle drivers for their safety-mindedness, consideration f...
MARIA SEMPLE I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil eith...
MARIA CALLAS Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man a...
MARIA MONTESSORI I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the s...
MARIA MONK I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm ...
MARIA SEMPLE The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me.
MARIA MONK I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has toug...
MARIA SHRIVER I do remember when it occurred to me the first time, when I got the idea of painting the way I feel ...
MARIA LASSNIG