"The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in his hands."

-- John Heartfield

#Artist Quotes #Men Quotes #Hands Quotes

“The piano is kind of my second instrument.”
“In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.”
“Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person's life. When we forget that, the suffering we inflict can be barbaric. When we remember it the good we do can be breathtaking.”

Source : Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.136, Metropolitan Books
“The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the same and who made their eyes see the world in the same way, men who went against the pattern of life's diversity, men whose spirits shattered the natural wall of the individual body, making nothing of this barrier, set up to guard against mutual corrosion, men whose spirit accomplished what flesh could never accomplish.”
“I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something.”
“It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the last thing in the world that a man can be that a woman cannot be. Women can be irritating -- after all, they are women -- but they cannot be curmudgeons.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Most people buy not because they believe, but because the sales person believes.”
“The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.”

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