"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me."

-- W. Somerset Maugham

#Long Quotes #Effort Quotes #Mind Quotes

“It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes.”
“The life of grace is not an effort on our part to achieve a goal we set ourselves. It is a continually renewed attempt simply to believe that someone else has done all the achieving that is needed and to live in relationship with that person, whether we achieve or not. If that doesn't seem like much to you, you're right: it isn't. And, as a matter of fact, the life of grace is even less than that. It's not even our life at all, but the life of that Someone Else rising like a tide in the ruins of our death.”
“When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.”
“Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story.”
“As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.”
“You get diarrhea out here, you dehydrate from the inside out - you leave the gene pool.”
“There's no way that if you get participation out of a person can they say you didn't rock it.”
“Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace.”

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