"Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot."

-- Phillip Lopate

#Creativity Quotes #People Quotes #Treats Quotes

“I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Abandon all hopes of utopia - there are people involved.”
“Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.”
“It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.”
“I've been getting publishing royalties and stuff like that. I have just been lucky. They come in at the right time. Sometimes they don't, but I am not wealthy or anything like that. I just love to work. I would rather work three hundred and something days out of the year. I would rather be working. They don't know. I love playing. Then I can really get my music together.”

Source : "A Fireside Chat With Pharoah Sanders". All About Jazz Interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. March 21, 2003.
“The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started by a single pair or by a single fertilized female. These 'founders' of the population carried with them only a very small proportion of the variability of the parent population. This 'founder' principle sometimes explains even the uniformity of rather large populations, particularly if they are well isolated and near the borders of the range of the species.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“And so, it is not astonishing that, though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to change, more often than not, what he really wants is to remain the same and to get the therapist to make him feel better. (4)”

Source : SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”
“If a man cannot prove his religion in the valley, it is not worth anything.”

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