"Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form."

-- Glenda Bailey

#Art Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Form Quotes

“Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.”
“I heavily overinvest in recruiting. I have an understanding with certain search firms that if you find someone great, don't wait until there's a job opening - send him to me.”
“As an actress, I really love people like Anna Magnani and Debra Winger. I also think there is nobody better than Meryl Streep.”
“God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.”
“There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourself out of this promise.”

Source : "'Just Say No'". Address to the Nation, edition.cnn.com. September 14, 1986.
“Every major accomplishment in a man's life requires a major level of commitment.”
“I'm so hungry," Amy said sleepily. "Hey, you stole my line," Dan said.”
“...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life.”

Source : Pentti Linkola (2011). “Can Life Prevail?”, p.122, Arktos

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