"All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you."

-- Sebastian Coe

#Motivational Quotes #Self Quotes #Track Quotes

“You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The Jews believed they were the nation God had chosen among all the nations. And they were. But that did not give them immunity to God's judgment. Like the nations, they too would feel God's wrath if they refused to live in God's ways. Furthermore, God could deal with other nations in mercy as well as judgment. Jeremiah was full of surprises, as against the popular religious assumptions of his day. That's perhaps why some people, when they encountered Jesus, thought he was very like Jeremiah. He turned things upside down.”

Source : Source: www.patheos.com
“You cannot change the stripes of a leopard.”
“I feel like we're so limited by the context at which we look at life. The way we look at who we're supposed to be and how we're supposed to love... everything. I feel like that, in and of itself, is a project of a lifetime: the problem of how to break out of the limiting context that is imposed upon us by the educational system, by the church, by our parents... As a kid I rejected it without even thinking about it. Now that I'm a little older, I see how deeply destructive it really is.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.”
“My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option.”

Source : "'Copper's' Ato Essandoh: 'I look at Doctor Who'". Interview with Jacqueline Cutler, screenertv.com. June 30, 2013.
“I couldn't care less about business.”
“I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You walk outside; the rocks are inert; even the clouds are inert. It makes me feel a little better. But I do have a faith that it is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.”

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