"If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death."

-- Steven Pressfield

#Real Quotes #Artist Quotes #Self Quotes

“You are judged on your last game no matter how many you have banked.”
“I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information, that the eye benefits by exercise, stretch, and expansion towards materials of complexity and substance, . . . conditions which alert the total sensibility - cast it almost in stress - extend insight and response, the basic responsive range of empathetic-kinesthetic vitality.”

Source : Carolee Schneemann (2003). “Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects”, p.47, MIT Press
“You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. -pg276”
“I went through this phase where I thought pink and purple matched. To dance class, I'd wear purple tights and pink leg warmers and paint my shoes purple. It was really odd.”
“The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.”
“I had dreamed about being a college coach for a long time, but with no education, I never thought I would get a chance.”
“Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time.”

Source : Gary Stanley Becker, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace (1996). “The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture”, p.5, Hoover Press
“Don't look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.”

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