"I'm aware that success can overwhelm you. The perception of you can be elevated to such a status that it's not you any more."

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Chris Ofili

#Perception Quotes

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it”
“A shudder runs through the viewer of old photographs. For they make visible not the knowledge of the original but the spatial configuration of a moment; what appears in the photograph is not the person but the sum of what can be subtracted from him or her.”
“I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.”
“We were both [ with Russel Crowe] hand-plucked to do [The Quick and the Death]. He had done Romper Stomper and I had done Gilbert Grape and so we were hand- plucked to do this big budget film. So we were both very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.”
“Eventually that's where you want to be really scrappy as an entrepreneur when you're first getting your business up and running: hiring the right people, partnering the right way, getting feedback on what you're doing.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.”
“The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe.”

Source : "Can Life Prevail?". Book by Pentti Linkola, 2004.
“I never want to let my teammates or coaches down, so I always fight through the days when I am exhausted or experiencing discomfort with injuries and headaches.”

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