"The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do."

-- Jose Maria Peman

#Action Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.”
“I feel very fortunate to be an actor on a network whose tag line is Characters Welcome and not Procedurals Welcome.”

Source : "A Roundtable With Tim DeKay, Carla Gugino, and Gabriel Macht". Interview with Mark Peikert, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2012.
“The massive corruption common in so many developing countries would be quite impossible if Western countries did not provide convenient opportunities to ship ill-gotten funds out of the country. It wouldn't make much sense for a ruler to store in his basement large quantities of stolen cash in his own country's currency. A corrupt ruler wants to be able to keep this money safe and to be able to spend it. And for this, he needs to convert it into a Western currency and store it in a bank abroad, where it can also earn investment returns and be bequeathed to his heirs.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Pay close attention to when you're being the real you & when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.”

Source : Derek Sivers (2015). “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur”, p.64, Penguin
“No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.”
“Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.”
“...what one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous-that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego.”

Source : "LSD: My Problem Child". Book by Albert Hofmann. Chaoter 11: "LSD Experience and Reality", www.psychedelic-library.org. 1980.
“I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.”

Source : "I still haven't written the best I can" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.

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