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“People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort them are going to change our situation.”
Source : Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”
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“At a certain point you have to make a decision in your life about where will you best serve, and I decided that I would best serve as a producer as opposed to a studio executive. There are many upsides to being the studio executive, but one of the downsides is that you get removed from the actual process of making the movie.”
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“I began to realize that life, despite moments of happiness and joy, is really about discovering priorities and dealing with unforeseen vagaries, differences, obstacles, inconveniences, and imperfections.”
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“You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.”
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“No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.”
Source : Alistair MacLeod (2010). “The Lost Salt Gift of Blood”, p.150, New Canadian Library
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“Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.”
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“People thought I was a really raw rapper that hated everything - a really sour person - but really I'm just a good, all-around music-making kid and I'm really happy. That really, I feel, painted my image to a lot of people. My music now, some people get sour over it because it's really happy, it's poppy, but I'm just telling them that that image from way back then was me feeling uncomfortable and now I'm comfortable.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.”
Source : Lillian Eugenia Smith (1954). “The journey”, World Publishing Company
