"I told you to sell it, not give it away."

-- Jerome Robbins

#Dance Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate is like a jazz band without instruments: Music just isn't going to happen.”
“One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and see how they play out on real people's lives, with real individuals.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.”

Source : Sergei Eisenstein (2014). “Film Form: Essays in Film Theory”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.”
“If expecting something in return is your reason for giving, you are really not giving- you're swapping. If you receive something in return for your gift, what you receive is a bonus - not a repayment of a debt.”
“Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.”

Source : "PW Talks with Susan Wiggs". Interview with Suzanne Fox, www.publishersweekly.com. January 28, 2002.
“God delights to increase the faith of His children. We ought, instead of wanting no trials before victory, no exercise for patience, to be willing to take them from God's hands as a means. Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.”
“I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty poor players. I used to know one of the world's leading mathematicians and whenever we played chess I had to give him the odds of a Queen to make matters more equal, and even then I always won.”

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