"There is art in taking time to appreciate the clean wash of the mind's silence."

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Source : Dan Wakefield (2010). “Creating from the Spirit: A Path to Creative Power in Art and Life”, p.11, Beech River Books

Dan Wakefield

#Art Quotes #Appreciate Quotes #Silence Quotes

“I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand”
“I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can supply material for literary art; for manifest reasons they lend themselves to artistic representation far more readily than those of the natural sciences; but to clothe the story of human society in a literary dress is no more the part of a historian as a historian, than it is the part of an astronomer as an astronomer to present in an artistic shape the story of the stars.”
“Jesus isn't coming for a church that's gritting her teeth, struggling to stay free from sin, secretly wishing she could indulge in a little immorality but abstaining because of being afraid of getting caught. No, Jesus is coming for a church passionately and utterly devoted to Him-one that is free on the inside.”

Source : Mike Bickle (1993). “Passion for Jesus”, Charisma House
“We will soon be living in an era in which we cannot guarantee survivability of any single point. However, we can still design systems in which system destruction requires the enemy to pay the price of destroying n of n stations. If n is made sufficiently large, it can be shown that highly survivable system structures can be built.”
“Windows are the eyes of the soulless”
“He said, You're so tiny, like a doll, you look like you might break. I wanted him to break me. Part of me did.”
“There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust.”
“To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.”

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