"It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change."

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Source : Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, Simon and Schuster

Miles Davis

#Change Quotes #Creating Quotes #Acting Quotes

“Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing... But their chief use is to mortify one's conceit, to show how thoroughly incompetent it is possible to be, and to shame one into better ways.”
“- Tears don't become us. - What becomes us? - Action.”
“The problem of abolishing want is not a problem in division, as the politicians so often aver; it is a problem of multiplication.”
“We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.”
“Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.”
“There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.”

Source : Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more”, p.39, e-artnow
“We sleep, allowing gravity to hold us, allowing Earth - our larger body - to recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters of our waking hours , stirring them back, as dreams, into the sleeping substance of our muscles.”
“The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality”

Source : "Hilbert". Book by Constance Reid, 1970.

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