"As you get older, you get stuck in your ways; just as you become stiffer physically, you also become stiffer mentally and more narrow-minded unless you make a conscious effort to keep yourself flexible."

-- Viggo Mortensen

#Effort Quotes #Way Quotes #Conscious Quotes

“But you see," said Roark quietly, "I have, letâ€™s say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working. Iâ€™ve chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then Iâ€™m only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standardsâ€”and I set my own standards. I inherit nothing. I stand at the end of no tradition. I may, perhaps, stand at the beginning of one.”
“We will be asked, "what did you love most in this world? What did you spend life doing? What did you run after? Will it last? The things that you chased, will they last? Will they help you, or will they hurt you when the illusion of this life has passed?"”
“A promise made should be a promise kept.”

Source : Steve Forbes (1999). “A New Birth of Freedom: Vision for America”, Regnery Publishing
“What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.”
“To be paid, to be employed to be an enthusiast and be excited about existence is fantastic.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“Unlike the background in many of the paintings that I was inspired by or paintings that I borrowed poses from - the great European paintings of the past - the background in my work does not play a passive role.”
“A song or an album is never really done. You can work on it forever, but knowing when to call it a day and knowing when to walk away from it is extremely important.”
“The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.”

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