"People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account."

-- Wyndham Lewis

#People Quotes #Judgement Quotes #Overwhelmed Quotes

“Occupation is the armor of the soul.”

Source : George Stillman HILLARD (1854). “The Dangers and Duties of the Mercantile Profession. An Address Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association, Etc”, p.22
“To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.”
“If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.”
“The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.”
“Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.”

Source : Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes”
“The actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene.”

Source : Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“When you've got the Daytona 500 out there at stake and everything riding on the line, guys go for it, and the guys that go for it are the ones that are either going to win or they're going to wreck.”

Source : "Daytona Duel: Race two winner's press conference". www.motorsport.com. February 16, 2007.
“A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?”

Source : James Hogg, Douglas S. Mack (1995). “The shepherd's calendar”, Edinburgh Univ Pr

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