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George Pattison
"And one thing the void certainly can teach us is how to wait, how to become truly patient, and how to let go of superfluous intellectual baggage - all of which is a good lesson for hyper-agitated multi-tasking goal-focussed contemporary human beings." --
Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.
George Pattison
#Letting Go Quotes
#Goal Quotes
#Waiting Quotes
“More than anything, I’m excited to have the artistic freedom and opportunity to make a sophomore record. Everybody dreads the sophomore slump, whereas I am embracing it and can’t wait to either go down in flames, or take it to another level. It’s not going to be in the middle – it’ll be one way or the other. That’s how it has to be.”
“It seems important that the social value factor be more generally recognized as a powerful causal agent in its own right and something to be dealt with directly as such. No more critical task can be projected for the 1970s than that of seeking for civilized society a new, elevated set of value guidelines more suited to man's expanded numbers and new powers over nature, a frame of reference for value priorities that will act to secure and conserve our world instead of destroying it.”
Source : "Science and the Problem of Values". Book by Roger Wolcott Sperry, p. 119, 1972.
“I'm something totally different. There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion...”
“One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic”
“Its a great day for hockey”
“Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.”
“It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex.”
“I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious,”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
