"To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize."

-- Andre Breton

#Mean Quotes #Perception Quotes #Awareness Quotes

“He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”

Source : Tom Perrotta (2006). “Joe College: A Novel”, p.48, Macmillan
“Learn to use the criticism as fuel and you will never run out of energy.”
“No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves.”
“Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off.”
“Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.”
“I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich.”

Source : "Danny DeVito: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 20, 2010.
“There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.”
“It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.”

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