"...one of hallmarks of a creative person is the ability to tolerate ambiguity, dissonance, inconsistency, things out of place. But one of the rules of a well-run corporation is that surprise is to be minimized. Yet if this rule were applied to the creative process, nothing worth reading would get written, nothing worth seeing would get painted, nothing worth living with and using would ever get designed."

-- Ralph Caplan

#Running Quotes #Reading Quotes #Creative Quotes

“The mills of God grind slowly.”
“The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.”

Source : Ian Fleming (1955). “Moonraker”, Penguin Group USA
“What painting is, is exactly what people see.”
“I'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.”

Source : "Ashley Rickards Exclusive Interview Awkward". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 19, 2011.
“In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of socialism was inseparably linked with their names.”

Source : "Let us advance under the banner of Marxism-Leninism and the Juche Idea". Speech on the occasion of the 165th birthday of Karl Marx and the Centenary of his death, May 03, 1983.
“The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments.”
“I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to understand the world can profit from the works of Plato and Socrates, the behaviour of the three Thomases, Aquinas, More and Jefferson - the austere analyses of Immanuel Kant and the political leadership of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.”
“I thought, 'OK, I'm done here. I'll take responsibility and go away.' Little did I know I was going to be going away limping because someone cut my legs out from under me.”

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