"Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things."

-- Charles Webster Hawthorne

#Humble Quotes #Humility Quotes #Pride Quotes

“Vegas is definitely a place where we can win. We had a good run here last year, and I feel even more confident about the car we're taking this time. We're taking the car that we raced in California two weeks ago, and it was obviously a good car.”
“I don't understand racism. We are all the same and I have the perfect hypothesis to prove it. I play to all those countries and they cry in all the same places in my show. They laugh in the same places. They become hysterical in the same places. They faint in the same places and that's the perfect hypothesis. There is a commonality that we are all the same.”
“Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again”
“You can always spot clothes made in a good place.”
“Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and exalts as it desires. When summoned, it slips away, and when it returns, it will do so at the time and place that suits it. It recognizes no chief, no overseer, no classifier, no ruler. Stories mix and mingle, facts sprout new shoots. The situations and words and scents-oh, the scents!-encrusted there are stored in the most disorganized and wonderful manner, not chronologically, not according to size or importance or even the alphabet.”

Source : Meir Shalev (2011). “My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir”, p.140, Schocken
“I think that someone is watching out for me, God, my guardian angel, I'm not sure who that is, but they really work hard.”
“Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.”
“Follow the lead of your symptoms, for thereâ€™s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.”

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