"Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks of romanticism to care about originality and suppose with a sometimes naive spontaneity that it's all that matters."

-- Paul Fry

#Doubt Quotes #Care Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Difference between motivation and inspiration - Motivation is external and short lived. Inspiration is internal and lifelong”
“Canada's eminent position today is a tribute to the patience, tolerance, and strength of character of her people, of both French and British strains. For Canada is enriched by the heritage of France as well as of Britain, and Quebec has imparted the vitality and spirit of France itself to Canada. Canada's notable achievement of national unity and progress through accommodation, moderation and forbearance can be studied with profit by her sister nations.”
“For bundles of universals can be in more than one place at the same time; so a bundle can have more than one instance; so there can be numerically distinct particulars sharing the same universals; so the principle of identity of indiscernibles is false.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Because there's such a long tradition of the arts being very prominent and very varied in Cuban culture and society, people do use the art world as a space for critical reflection and people look to it for that.”
“They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? Itâ€™s absurd.”
“Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates.”
“I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a company, you can not be a logical leader. You have to go to the lunatic fringe. There is no way that logic is what you need to change people.”

Source : David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.92, Penguin
“I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.”

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