"We recognize that our progress as a species does not have to be defined in terms of wealth or material and physical growth any more than our progress as individuals has to be defined in terms of physical growth. Physical growth of the body reaches a limit, but the character and the soul of the individual continues to grow, or at least has a chance to continue, often to our last breath. It is simple minded to define our well being in material terms, when that well-being has an aesthetic dimension, and intellectual dimension, a moral dimension."

-- Wes Jackson

#Character Quotes #Simple Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too. (When asked if he noticed how slowly Earl Campbell got up after each play.)”
“Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.”
“Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.”

Source : "Hugh Howey Interview Part 1: Science Fiction, Indie Writing, And Success". Interview with Eric Wecks, www.wired.com. March 29, 2012.
“So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.”

Source : Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.
“A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.154, Univ of California Press
“In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.”
“Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.”
“Is 4 the same 4 for everybody? Are all sevens equal? When the convict ponders the light is it the same light that shines on you?”

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