"If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice."

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Margaret Mahy

#Jobs Quotes #Work Quotes

“Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?”
“As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an action, and he didn't mean just the writing of it, he meant that at the centre of any piece there is an action, a physical action.”
“The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning.”
“I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.”
“The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.”

Source : Vance Packard (1991). “The Hidden Persuaders”
“The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house correspondingly turns inward, away from whatever corresponds beyond its four walls.At the same time, the television is the families chief connection to the world. The physical envelope of the house itself no longer connects their lives to the outside in any active way; rather it seals them from it.The outside world has become an abstraction filtered through television, just as the weather is an abstraction filtered through air conditioning.”
“In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.”

Source : James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.”

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