"Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be better than the last. For me, success is about this, seeing the slow progress in my work."

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Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Ali Banisadr

#Progress Quotes #Want Quotes #Littles Quotes

“TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental.”
“Anyone who has ever accomplished anything of any consequence, didn't know how to get what they want, they only knew that they were going to get it. You don't know how to do something, until after you've done it. Our problem is, we set goals to do what we think we can do or what we've already done. There's no inspiration in that.”
“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”
“Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.”
“We shouldn't knee jerk anything. The Iraqi government a few years back, when they had a chance to sign an agreement that would keep some of our presence there, refused to do it. So we've got to be very careful and thoughtful before we do anything.”

Source : "GOP on Iraq: We told you so" Jeremy Herb and Burgess Everett, www.politico.com. June 12, 2014.
“Yes, I definitely plan to direct at some point.”
“Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.”

Source : Ron Suskind (2012). “Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President”, p.84, Harper Collins
“The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.”

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