"Did you ever have something to say and feel as if the whole side of the wall wouldn't be big enough to say it on, and then sit down on the floor and try to get it onto a sheet of charcoal paper?"

-- Georgia O'Keeffe

#Wall Quotes #Trying Quotes #Paper Quotes

“You have to learn to look at someone you truly adore through eyes that really aren´t your own. It´s as if a person has to become another person altogether to be able to take a hard look. Good people protect people they love, even if that means pretending that everything is okay.”

Source : Ron McLarty (2005). “The Memory of Running”, p.31, Penguin
“Theorists tend to peak at an early age; the creative juices tend to gush very early and start drying up past the age of fifteen-or so it seems. They need to know just enough; when they're young they haven't accumulated the intellectual baggage.”

Source : Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“You don't realize that if you stop looking backwards craving the love and acceptance which you didn't receive from your parents, then you might open your eyes to what is available for you now. But you won't let go. If only you could see that looking back into an incomplete and imperfect past, with regret, blame, guilt or resentment is keeping you from the treasures that await you here now. The past has gone. You cannot rectify something that is no longer with you.”
“If you do a lot of things to build business, you'll build business. They don't have to be done perfectly to work, although the better you do them, the better they'll work. But the main point is that you have to do them - a lot.”

Source : Joe Girard, Stanley H. Brown (2006). “How to Sell Anything to Anybody”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
“I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.”
“Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.”
“That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.”
“I have good voice inflection, that's why I'm good on radio. But on TV, I look too big because I move my hands around a lot.”

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