"You do not notice changes in what is always before you."

-- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.”
“If your identity is found in Christ, then it matters less and less what people think of you.”

Source : Leonard Sweet (2014). “The Well-Played Life: Why Pleasing God Doesn't Have to Be Such Hard Work”, p.116, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“If you are physically ready to play, it's a matter of confidence. Your confidence goes down when you lose games, when shots are not going in.”
“Snub end of a dismal year, deep in the dwarf orchard, The sky with its undercoat of blackwash and point stars, I stand in the dark and answer to My life, this shirt I want to take off, which is on fire . . .”

Source : Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.4, Macmillan
“I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method of learning the law is still in. The matriculating young lawyer is as qualified to represent a client with the education he has suffered through as a doctor who has never seen a patient, who has never held a scalpel in his hand and who learns surgery by having read text books about it and becomes skilled in surgery, if ever, after having stacked up piles of corpses who represent his pathetic learning process.”
“Squeeze the rich until the pips squeak”
“I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.”

Source : "Prophet of the Avant-Garde". www.pbs.org. September 17, 2005.
“You've made your bed, now go bounce on it.”

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