"The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned"

-- William Carlos Williams

#Ascent Quotes #Descent Quotes

“People say it takes 10 years to change your life. It's bullshit. It takes a moment, a second. But it may take you 10 years to get to the point of finally saying, "Enough."”
“We do not have thousands of years to unlearn the wrong patters that were established over thousands of years. The exponential speed-up of these cumulative patterns of destruction means we have to both learn new patterns and put them into practice on a global scale within the next generation.”
“I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is.”
“Faith is a practical attitude of the will.”
“It's a fact the whole world knows, That Pobbles are happier without their toes.”

Source : Edward Lear, Edward Mendelson, Laura Huliska-Beith (2001). “Edward Lear”, p.31, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
“Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.”
“If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so long, I'd have said it was impossible, that it was crazy that that could happen in my life, so I'm happy to be here. To be able to go out on stage every day.”
“Words never mean what we want them to mean.”

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