"To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other."

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Source : Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.294

Benjamin Haydon

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“When despair for the world grows in me... I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”

Source : Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.79, Counterpoint Press
“These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.”
“Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.”
“Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization of nature. Many women give up in despair: if that's how deep it goes they don't want to know.”

Source : SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”
“A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.”
“There's Pele the man, and then Pele the player. And to play like Pele is to play like God.”
“I became at peace with the darkness or the personality that I have. I am usually pretty funny and happy.”

Source : Source: the-talks.com
“The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!”

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