"You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?"

-- Xunzi

#Opportunity Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Looks Quotes

“People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.”
“Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands of the working world grow ever more total, grasping ever more completely the whole of human existence.”

Source : Josef Pieper (1998). “Leisure, the Basis of Culture”, St Augustine PressInc
“Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good job. What is a good job? One that pays well. Oh. And that's it? All this suffering, merely so that we can earn a lot of money, which, even if we manage it, will not solve our problems anyway? It's a tragically limited idea of what life is all about.”
“The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.”
“Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.”
“I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're in the middle of putting your work together.”
“Risk means more things can happen than will happen.”
“My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.”

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