"Success doesn't have a downside for me. I'm busy, but I've always been busy whatever job I've had. My very first job working in a furniture factory was bloody busy! That's just modern life. It's not a downside, you just have to be organised and keep things in perspective."

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Victoria Derbyshire

#Perspective Quotes #Busy Quotes #Modern Quotes

“When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.”
“The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon [the] possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in a world dominated by apparatuses; to reflect upon the way in which, despite everything, it is possible for human beings to give significance to their lives in the face of the chance necessity of death. Such a philosophy is necessary because it is the only form of revolution left open to us.”
“These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.”
“What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.”

Source : Willem De Kooning, John Elderfield, Lauren Mahony (2011). “De Kooning: A Retrospective”, p.17, The Museum of Modern Art
“My father was a local radio celebrity in the Albany area while I was growing up. That was his dream when he was a boy. I learned from him that some dreams are attainable and the penalty for inaction is regret.”
“But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.”
“BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion.”
“We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.”

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