"My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements."

-- Alex Colville

#Thinking Quotes #Two Quotes #Elements Quotes

“I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.”
“Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.”

Source : Joseph Sugarman (1980). “Success forces”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
“The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'”

Source : Jonathan Kozol (1990). “The Night Is Dark and I Am Far from Home”, Touchstone Books
“And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death, My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats... Maybe cause I'm a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death, Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I'mma rest.”
“Picking on another person in their mind justifies and makes their stature higher. People do it interracially. It's amazing how every race, every culture seems to have a culture they pick on.”
“Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart”
“Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult for me because I'm ready to quit after number two.”
“â€¦I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.”

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