"Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do."

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Source : "Fear is the drug" by Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2006.

Sylvie Guillem

“Clearly see you can't see Clear”
“I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal”

Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". Nova (TV series), www.pbs.org. November 01, 2000.
“The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.”

Source : Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.347, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Some Westerners [â€¦] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.”
“Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace; it helps you now, and assures you of help in the future. Good education is a continual pain in the neck, and assures you always of more of the same.”
“I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.”
“I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.”
“People don't want to be bothered, if they're not being pressured to change. You have to push people. You have to be the agitator that makes the pearl.”

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