"Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own."

-- Andrew Mason

#Listening Quotes #Sainthood Quotes #Woe Quotes

“Eventually I discovered for myself the utterly simple prescription for creativity; be intensely yourself. Don't try to be outstanding; don't try to be a success;don't try to do pictures for others to look at- just please yourself.”

Source : Ralph Steiner (1978). “A point of view”, Wesleyan
“I'm sure glad this isn't my home ball park.”
“Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.”
“I did some films in college, and I remember working with this director that wanted to shock me so that I'd give him an expression of shock, so he poured scalding hot water on my arm during the take. He splashed it on me. He got his expression of shock, but I also got, like, second-degree burns!”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.”

Source : Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.86, VM eBooks
“Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends, and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.”

Source : "The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer". Book by Oscar Niemeyer, 1998.
“We originally developed 'The Client List' along with Lifetime as a TV movie - my manager and I became partners on the project. Then, we brought in Howard Braunstein on the project and produced it along with Lifetime.”
“Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'”

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