"The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you."

-- Michael J. Sullivan

#Reality Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Important Quotes

“We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.”
“I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen”
“Creative art is the power to be for a moment a flash of communication between God and man.”
“What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.”
“God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.”
“Gaming has been a great way to get to know people. That's part of what I love about games, that they are social.”

Source : "Rich Sommer Knows His Games. Don't Tell Him Otherwise". Interview with Matt Morgan, www.mtv.com. August 2, 2012.
“To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.”

Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.
“I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but rather that the sitter and I give to each other. It becomes an act of mutual participation.”

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