"Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or endeavor you've ever concocted, can be stripped from you in an instant. Sooner or later, it will happen. So prepare yourself. Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is indestructible."

Source : Jonathan Evison (2013). “The Fundamentals of Caring”, p.221, Head of Zeus

Jonathan Evison

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“I'm always busy. You know, the more I do, the more ideas I haveâ€”that's the funny thing. The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body builder.”
“I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that”

Source : Boris Yeltsin's speech to the summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Istanbul, news.bbc.co.uk. November 18, 1999.
“Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.”
“The diagonal gives a three-dimensional feeling to dancers that cannot be achieved when they are only front and back. On the diagonal, more movement is automatically visible.”
“If you're an adult and still think material wealth leads to happiness, might I suggest not being a moron.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Feb 21, 2012
“My addiction has always been beautiful women, being surrounded by them.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 2012.
“I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.”
“I never have restricted myself into a frame of a particular technique. My techniques are determined simultaneously along with the subjects of my works. It is similar to the works of a poet, the form of a poem is determined at the same time as its content.”

Source : Etelaat newspaper, Iran, June 07, 1973.

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