"As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance."

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Source : Susan Neiman (2009). “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists”, p.153, Princeton University Press

Susan Neiman

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“Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teeth in my jaw. Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. Maybe self-destruction is the answer.”
“Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.”
“I think the most important thing you can do is to keep drawing no matter what. And to not be afraid of drawing whatever interests you. If there is something that you want to draw, to make, then I think you should pursue it and not let anybody tell you that you cant do it.”
“Have you considered that if you don't make waves, nobody including yourself will know that you are alive?”
“You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well”
“When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.”

Source : "RECollection: Volume 1". Book by Joseph Gordon-Levitt (from collection of a book, a DVD and a CD), an anthology published by HitRecord, www.gq.com. September 20, 2011.
“You never learn anything in school. Think about how many car accidents happen every day. Driverâ€™s ed? Whatâ€™s up? I still havenâ€™t been to driverâ€™s ed because if everybody I know has been in an accident, I canâ€™t see how driverâ€™s ed is really helping them out.”

Source : "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.
“We make and sell a very, very large number of (hopefully) beautiful, well-made things. Our success is a victory for purity, integrity - for giving a damn.”

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