"I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do."

-- David Byrne

#Trouble Quotes #Practicality Quotes

“Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.”

Source : "60 Minutes", www.cbsnews.com. August 9, 2017.
“Anything that helps pay the bills, I love it. Anything that makes people happy, I'm happy with that.”
“People who succeed speak well of themselves to themselves.”

Source : Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books
“Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.”
“Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.”

Source : Francis Crick (2008). “What Mad Pursuit”, p.104, Hachette UK
“A man spends the first year of his life learning that he ends at his own skin, and the rest of his life learning that he doesn't.”

Source : "The Individual and Political Life of Information Systems". "Proceedings of the Symposium on Education for Information Science, Warrenton, Virginia, September 7-10, 1965". Book edited by Lawrence B. Heilprin, Barbara E. Markuson, Frederick L. Goodman, 1965.
“I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.”

Source : "Matt Bomer Tells the Personal Story Behind His Heartbreaking ‘Normal Heart’ Performance". Interview with Kevin Fallon, www.thedailybeast.com. May 21, 2014.
“No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?”

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