"My fabulous architect godfather and mentor told me once that striving toward a goal - or perfection - gives one focus and direction, which is a helluva lot better than chasing one's tail."

-- Catherine Stock

#Giving Quotes #Goal Quotes #Perfection Quotes

“Let your *need* guide you behavior. *Supress* your instinct to lead... Pursue Rabbit!”
“Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face.”
“Why does Ian think I have to kiss you?”
“With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.”

Source : Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. September 22, 2009.
“Before I go to meet my Maker, I want to use the salt left in my shaker. I want to find out if it's true The Blue Danube is really blue, Before I kiss the world goodbye.”
“Let us be adventurers for another world. It is at least a fair and noble chance; and there is nothing in this worth our thoughts or our passions. If we should be disappointed, we are still no worse than the rest of our fellow-mortals; and if we succeed in our expectations we are eternally happy.”
“Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good.”
“The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.”

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