"Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'."

-- Russell Baker

#Classic Quotes #Determined Quotes #Synonym Quotes

“Lightstone's Convolution Principle: The concurrent development of multiple features operating on intersecting componentry will take longer to complete than the sum of the schedule estimations for each.”
“I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.”
“I conquered a fear of heights and water by bungee jumping from a crane over a lake. And if thats not crazy enough, I also wrestled a greased pig in a mud pit.”
“I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.”
“The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.”
“Man is the being who, from cradle to grave has to abide by either his man-made laws or heavenly law.”
“Integral reality is the worldâ€™s transparency, a perceiving of the world as truth: a mutual perceiving and imparting of the truth of the world and of man and of all that transluces both.”
“I don't need to control the mind of my viewer. Now this might sound contradictory because I want to make these installations set up an environment that will produce a certain kind of experience in the viewer, but beyond a certain point, I take hands off and leave it up to chance and personal experience. So maybe it's a marriage of control and no control we're talking about where the artist produces the artifact or the environment and then walks away from it, and the second half of the equation is the viewer and their personal history and how they feel about what they're experiencing.”

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