Quotes
Authors
Andrew Mango

"There was a time when Istanbul was one of the safest cities in the world, because people were afraid of the police. People are no longer as afraid of the police as they used to be. Mugging used to be almost unknown; now everybody is afraid of mugging. In that sense, the downside of liberalization is already being felt in Turkey. And of course some people are afraid of Kurdish ethno-terrorism, which worries Turks very much more than the religious sort."

-- Andrew Mango

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“I get very surprised and shocked because there is so much prejudice against me as a celebrity, instead of them looking at the quality of my work. Just look at the work. Forget about who I am. But there is so much perception in the art business that blurs that insight. The work speaks, so just look and then judge from there.”
“There is nothing so great or ideally beautiful as the action of God in the human soul. If we knew how to discern it in ourselves, our lives would be transformed. If we could see it in others we would love even more him who is always in our midst, who acts in us, and who works marvels - these spiritual renewals that we shall understand only in eternity.”

Source : Elisabeth Leseur (2005). “Selected Writings”, p.139, Paulist Press
“Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.”
“Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.”
“Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.”
“Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may not work this time.”
“I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.”
“You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc. of serum, or administering a year's dose of vitamins.”

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