"Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, It cant be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it. Thats kind of stuck with me."

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Source : Source: theindiespiritualist.com

Damien Hirst

#Real Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Kids Quotes

“Only mediocrity escapes criticism.”

Source : John Steinbeck (2001). “A Life in Letters”, p.1159, Penguin UK
“Our smile will bring happiness to us and to those around us. Even if we spend a lot of money on gifts for everyone in our family, nothing we buy could give them as much happiness as the gift of our awareness, our smile. And this precious gift costs nothing.”
“It is most often not our strengths, our courage or our successes that bring two human hearts together, but it is often our shared vulnerability, our fears and our common failures that make us one.”
“Education is the ability to meet life's situations.”
“Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.”
“It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States.”

Source : "Unvanquished: A U.S. - U.N. Saga". Book by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 1999.
“The only thing that frees you from the need to pretend in order to make people believe you are something when you are actually not is the gospel because the gospel tells you that identity, my meaning, my security, and all of those things are in Christ.”
“Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.”

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