"I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics."

-- Zephyr Teachout

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Law Quotes

“When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.”
“If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may please even your guru, but you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist-then you may please even God.”
“Iâ€™m trying to please myself; certainly thatâ€™s a big criterion... though in a sense, I donâ€™t take images just for myself. I take images that I think other people will want to see. I donâ€™t take pictures to put in a box and hide them. I want as many people to see them as possible.”
“Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons.”
“There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.”
“As you go through life, you learn many lessons. Unfortunately these lessons only apply to the specific instances in which you learned them. Therefore you can expect to make horrible mistakes no matter how long you live.”

Source : Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”
“I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known.”

Source : John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.250, Macmillan
“Thinking in prose is different. I gained an immense amount of respect for people who write prose, and also felt even more sure that the thinking particular to poetry is essential to my life. I need to think, to explore, to question, in poetry. Without that feeling, I am, in some ultimate way, lost.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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