"The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing."

-- Susan Sontag

#Beauty Quotes #Time Quotes #Past Quotes

“The moral of the story: perceptions are everything. During each moment you are in contact with a customer, you are the organization.”
“He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting.”
“Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.”
“In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.”
“I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.”

Source : "Great Expectations, And Some Hope Of Meeting Them". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.nhpr.org. June 28, 2012.
“Being true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it.”
“The only problem with Shearwater as a name for a band is that people sort of think that it's this amalgamated word like Pushmonkey or something. Doesn't have an actual...you know, like Clearwater or Stillwater, they don't realize that it actually is a thing. It seemed like such a beautiful word, I was so suprised that no body had named their band that.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.”

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