"The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand."

-- Nadine Gordimer

#Eye Quotes #Mind Quotes #Gaps Quotes

“Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.”
“Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do”

Source : "Oprah's Career Advice For 20-Somethings" by Emily Co, www.popsugar.com. October 22, 2012.
“Play always as if in the presence of a master.”

Source : Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.10
“Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.”
“I can't draw a straight line to save my life. I just can't draw.”
“When I was just about to leave, and when I realised that I wasn't going to wake up in the morning and do this again - that was probably the hardest thing for me. Leaving this family that I'd created on set, with all the cast and the crew was very sad for me.”
“I never met a cold cut I didn't like.”
“Every youth movement presents itself as a loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled.”

Source : Greil Marcus (2014). “Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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