"When inspiration dies, imitation thrives."

-- Walter Darby Bannard

#Inspiration Quotes #Imitation Quotes #Thrive Quotes

“I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.”
“Purpose has to do with one's calling - deciding what business you are in as a person.”
“You only understand information relative to what you already understand.”

Source : Richard Saul Wurman, Loring Leifer, David Sume (2001). “Information Anxiety 2”, Que Pub
“Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves.”
“Anyone who has attempted to create knows the hellishness of it, which consists in the final inescapability from it. Knows that anything, however deadly humdrum to drug the senses, is preferable to it. Knows the gigantic effort to get started on the boundless, unwieldy, shapeless material; the forest of hesitations; of what to keep and what to throw out; the running-out terror and reluctance in one of finishing.”
“An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.”
“The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.”
“The camera has a mind of its own--its own point of view. Then the human bearer of time stumbles into the camera's gaze--the camera's domain of pristine space hitherto untraversed is now contaminated by human temporality. Intrusion occurs, but the camera remains transfixed by its object. It doesn't care. The camera has no human fears.”

Source : Frank Lentricchia (2011). “The Sadness of Antonioni”, p.124, SUNY Press

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