"Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower"

-- Oscar Levant

#Mind Quotes #Dwight Quotes #Indecision Quotes

“The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.”
“Jesus once caused a sick man to arise on the Sabbath and take up his bed, whereupon the pious of the land raised a great outcry. But Jesus answered with superior contempt that the Sabbath was there for the sake of man, not man for the sake of the Sabbath; consequently, man was also master over the Sabbath.”

Source : "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 229, 1930.
“From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL.' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town.”
“I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and repeated in every part of its interior so that wherever you are, inside or outside, the building sings with the same message.”

Source : Eero Saarinen, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Donald Albrecht (2006). “Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future”, p.353, Yale University Press
“The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.”
“Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.”
“I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive. You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself.”
“I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue.”

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