"There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?""

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Buffy Sainte-Marie

#Eye Quotes #Exercise Quotes #College Quotes

“I knew that was really the only purpose of life: to be our self, live our truth, and be the love that we are.”
“The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.”

Source : "Taylor Hanson Isn’t Burning Down Any Hotel Rooms". Interview with Jon Chattman, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2009.
“I'm on a higher plane with brain with a flame, feel the fire, desire the same.”

Source : Song: Knowledge is King
“Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.”
“Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.”
“I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress.”
“If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.”
“Hope is not a method.”

Source : "Hope Is Not a Method: What Business Leaders Can Learn from America's Army". Book by Gordon R. Sullivan and Michael V. Harper, September 2, 1997.

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