"This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity ..."

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Freya Stark

#Integrity Quotes #Excellence Quotes #Sake Quotes

“People like to pigeonhole you.”

Source : Interview with Dan Epstein, suicidegirls.com. February 15, 2003.
“I've been, I think, able to stay grounded in such a crazy business, and I attribute that a lot to my family, and especially to my mother. Because, you know, she just was always there to kind of remind me of what priorities should be. O.K., yes, I'm an artist, I'm a performer, but I'm a sister, I'm a daughter, I'm a granddaughter, I'm an aunt. Those things have to be as important, if not more important, than my career.”
“Add in the good stuff - eventually it will crowd out the bad stuff.”
“Do you know where Jason is?â€ she asked Dmitri when they exited the morgue. Dmitri pressed the car remote to unlock the flame red Ferrari parked in the employees-only lot. â€œTired of your Bluebell already?â€ A tendril of champagne circled around her senses, cut with something far harder. Never had she felt that harsh edge in Dmitriâ€™s scent. She pitied the woman he took to his bed today. â€œYeah, thatâ€™s it. Iâ€™m building a harem.”
“The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption.”

Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“You have to take the calculated risk,to earn something”
“Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste.”
“In the garden there was nothing which was not quite like themselves - nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them - the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs. If there had been one person in that garden who had not known through all his or her innermost being that if an Egg were taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end... there could have been no happiness even in that golden springtime air.”

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