"How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in the right direction from becoming a stopping point? How do we get beyond shades of insipid light green?"

-- Donella Meadows

#Light Quotes #Appreciate Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.”

Source : Interview with Edouard Roditi in 1958. "Dialogues: Conversations With European Artists at Mid-Century". Book by Edouard Roditi, p. 114, 1990.
“Sometimes you gotta laugh through the tears, smile through the pain so that you can live through the sorrow.”
“The more you know about how things are the less you know about how things could be.”
“Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses.”
“The people in Atlanta, they're not really up on the blogs. A few people are, but it's not super crazy. In Atlanta it's still very much radio. When they hear it on the radio, that's what it is.”

Source : "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.
“The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.”
“I used to pile on the detail, which was probably a way of hedging my bets while I was working out my own way of doing things. I've cut it back over the years, but some of the descriptions can still be still pretty dense. So the answer is somewhere between fairly detailed and maybe too detailed. Fortunately, people are seeing the final pages and not my raw script.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.”

Source : "Naomi Campbell Dodges ‘Angry Black Woman’ Label Despite Reporter’s Fearless Attempt" By Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2013.

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