"As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them."

-- George Eliot

#Memories Quotes #Self Quotes #Doe Quotes

“As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.”

Source : Ben Bradlee (2011). “A Good Life”, p.68, Simon and Schuster
“While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my daysin backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.While people are spinning like toys on Christmas day,I'm inside a still life with the other absentee.”
“We just wanted to put a smile on people's faces. That's all we ever wanted to do.”
“Lets choose to do something really difficult, something that saves lives, and let's do that thing with people we love.”
“I thought, oh, I'm going to be a painter. And eventually my family had moved near Chicago, and when I graduated from high school, I went to the Chicago Art Institute, and it was there that I thought, well, now I'm going to be a painter.”
“But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.”
“Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.”
“I've been painting and making things since I was little.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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