"The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation."

-- Steven Pressfield

#Artist Quotes #Self Quotes #Rejection Quotes

“To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks. To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.”
“The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents.”
“Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.”

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“Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.”
“Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.”
“Why fear death? Death is only a beautiful adventure.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to represent an infinite shading of meaning. It is a character they share with the Ojibway and the Zulu.”
“Classic was Jimmy Savileâ€™s use of the cloak of authority and kindness. Savileâ€™s celebrity allowed him to acquire this authority. As we consider the regulation of the media and the legal right to privacy it is worth reflecting on how the Savile scandal happened. It happened because the aura of Sir Jimmyâ€™s celebrity protected him from scrutiny by the press.”

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