"I need to trust myself and go where my instincts tell me, and to be as wild and free as possible in my creative decisions."

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Joshua Oppenheimer

#Creative Quotes #Decision Quotes #Instinct Quotes

“Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going, with no judgments of right or wrong, neither staying nor going. This, then, is the Great Way.”
“It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. These lines may have their roots in quite different parts of human nature, in different times or different cultural environments or different religious traditions: hence if they actually meet, that is, if they are at least so much related to each other that a real interaction can take place, then one may hope that new and interesting developments may follow.”
“Failure to me became not trying versus not succeeding”
“I think Im extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like youre getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that. Im working through it, which is good. As an actor, I think that you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.”
“I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.”
“My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.”
“In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and its base spreads out in manifold foothills into the world of mortals. It is the way by which man can raise himself to the divine and by which the divine can reveal itself to man.”
“Heraldry has been contemptuously termed 'the science of fools with long memories.'”

Source : James Robinson Planché, Arthur Prichard HARRISON (1852). “The Pursuivant of Arms; Or, Heraldry Founded Upon Facts”, p.3

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