"We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self."

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“We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.”
“Youâ€™re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.”
“I did undergo hypnotherapy, and it didn't work! The guy couldn't put me under. I was very disappointed. I was very keen to be suggested, to have somebody tell me to run naked or cluck like a chicken or whatever, but it didn't work for me, I'm afraid.”
“I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.”
“Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen by a one-eyed, motionless person who is clearly detached from what he sees. It makes a God of the spectator, who becomes the person on whom the whole world converges, the Unmoved Onlooker.”

Source : Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.25, Vintage
“You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might find a higher purpose and a better use of mind.”
“Do not look around at what everyone else is doing. No one is asking you to be someone else. But the world does need you to be you, because you are the only one who can do the job. Be the person God created you to be. He made you exactly right.”
“It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.”

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