"We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem"

-- William McDonough

#Fall Quotes #Effectiveness Quotes #Tree Quotes

“Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes.”
“As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.”
“Discipline your mind to think positively; to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.”
“Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.”
“The negatives were [Adolf Hitler] political philosophies, but neither Eva [Braun] or I knew anything that was going on.”
“Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.”
“Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.”
“Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.”

Source : Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.278, Univ of California Press

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