"Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world."

-- Ida Tarbell

#Understanding Quotes #Age Quotes #Cheerful Quotes

“If it's easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government, what they're doing.”

Source : "'The Center Holds' Sees Victory For Moderates In Obama's Win". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 20, 2013.
“Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution, knowledge of materials is your contact with reality, and uncertainty is a virtue.”

Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.15, Image Continuum Press
“I think as artists we have an opportunity to shed light and share different stories and expose different realities and inspire people and give a different perspective.”

Source : Source: youknowigotsoul.com
“Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.”
“The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.”
“To say I live a cursed life is an understatement. I have to get up every day and work with people who are not as successful as me nor will they ever be as successful as me. Nobody knows the struggles I go through.”
“Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.”

Source : "On Medicine". Essay by Avicenna (circa 1020), as quoted in "The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East" edited by Charles F. Horne (Volume VI "Medieval Arabia", pp. 90-91), sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1917.
“I am far from perfect, but I have something else. I heard that people in the industry are longing for more personality and diversity. Perhaps I am more a 'character' than a model.”

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