"I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out."

-- Gordon Parks

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“When you have the choice between being right and being kind just choose kind.”
“Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.”

Source : Tad Williams (2005). “The Stone of Farewell: Book Two of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn”, p.156, Penguin
“Our real illiteracy is our inability to create”
“When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.”
“You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive.”

Source : "John Perry: An interview by Bob Morris". bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.
“Suggestion is generally better than Definition. There is a seeming dogmatism about Definition that is often repellent, while Suggestion, on the contrary, disarms suspicion and summons to co-operation and experiment. Definition provokes discussion. Suggestion provokes to love and good works. Defining is limiting. Suggestion is enlarging. Defining calls a halt; Suggestion calls for an advance. Defining involves the peril of contentment: "I am here, I rest." "Thus far," says Definition, and draws a map. "Westward," cries Suggestion, and builds a boat.”
“In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.”

Source : Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works. A New Ed”, p.55
“PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.”

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