"A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank."

-- Walter Hadwen

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.”
“I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.”
“A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.”
“It is necessary for the mind to become free of the illusions of this world and become a fine and marvelous instrument of the Inner Being.”

Source : "Zodiacal Course". Book by Samael Aun Weor, 1986.
“Why would you want to stay manager and be second-guessed by me when you can come up into the front-office and be one of the second-guessers?”
“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”

Source : Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.7, Ardent Media
“I think I've become more relaxed throughout my career. I don't feel the need to jump up and down and make a big noise to get people to pay attention to me. I don't need to do punk rock gestures or eat a cockroach or do something weird to say I exist.”

Source : Source: www.cnn.com
“When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down to the countryside of grief, and that descent, resisted so long proves invigorating. . . . As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.”

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