"Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being."

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Source : "The Question Mark Inside". Documentary, October 30, 2009.

Martin Firrell

#Art Quotes #Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“If I ain't learning, it ain't fun.”

Source : "How World of Warcraft Could Save Your Business and The Economy" by John Seely Brown, bigthink.com.
“If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.”

Source : "Rep. Peter Welch". Interview with Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com. April 21, 2011.
“How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane.”

Source : Maggie Shipstead (2014). “Astonish Me: A novel”, p.102, Vintage
“Because startups often accidentally build something nobody wants, it doesnâ€™t matter much if they do it on time and on budget. The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build - the thing customers want and will pay for - as quickly as possible.”

Source : Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.20, Crown Business
“You have to be prepared to give creative work 150%. I hear a lot of young people talking about life/work balance, which I think is great when youâ€™re in your 30s. If youâ€™re in your 20s and already talking about that, I donâ€™t think you will achieve your goals. If you really want to build a powerful career, and make an impact, then you have to be prepared to put in blood, sweat, and tears.”
“In some ways, Valiant Gentlemen grows out of Tales of the New World, my collection of short stories about explorers who lived "great" lives, but whose experience of it was in the same register as all our lives are - we feel the same extent of human emotion regardless of how exceptional our actions are: nothing is more exceptional than one's own life.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Justice implies knowledge of the right and proper place for a thing or a being to be; of right as against wrong; of the mean and limit; of spiritual gain as against loss; of truth as against falsehood.”
“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.”

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