"There is no particular reason to search for meaning."

-- William Eggleston

#Reason Quotes #Particular Quotes

“I can get along great with the Hispanics. In fact, I sure would like to meet them, even the politicians, maybe in the back room or whatever, have a couple of beers and try to explain. But they need to understand that I enforce the laws. I want to listen to them and hear their problems. I want them to tell me what their problems are.”
“Resistance in my experience always kicks in when you're trying to move from a lower level to a higher level or to identify with a braver part of yourself or your higher nature. So it's that negative repelling force. It's kind of the dragon that we have to slay every day if we're artists or entrepreneurs.”

Source : "Special Interview with Steven Pressfield and Ishita Gupta". "Marketing Over Coffee" podcast with John Wall, www.marketingovercoffee.com. May 16, 2011.
“There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own field the biochemist Fritz Lipmann or the much maligned Linus Pauling were very talented people. But generally, geniuses everywhere seem to have died out by 1914. Today, most are mediocrities blown up by the winds of the time.”
“Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.”
“The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth.”
“Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”

Source : Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.319, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.”
“Paradise is too perfect for humanity.”

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