"To be agreeable, all that is necessary is to take an interest in other persons and in other things, to recognize that other people as a rule are much like one's self, and thankfully to admit that diversity is a glorious feature of life."

-- Frank Arthur Swinnerton

#Self Quotes #Diversity Quotes #People Quotes

“If there's 10,000 people looking at the stocks and trying to pick winners, one in 10,000 is going to score, by chance alone, a great coup, and that's all that's going on. It's a game, it's a chance operation, and people think they are doing something purposeful... but they're really not.”
“If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.”

Source : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown
“Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.”
“Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Donâ€™ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.”
“In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.”
“Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.”
“When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.”
“I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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