"Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing."

--

Rick Riordan

#Knowledge Quotes #Fate Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works right? You don't really develop feelings about a place till you've left it. It's like a girl or a dog.”

Source : Adam Rapp (2010). “Punkzilla”, p.2, Candlewick Press
“We've subsidized oil companies for a century. That's long enough. It's time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that rarely has been more profitable, and double-down on a clean energy industry that never has been more promising. Pass clean energy tax credits. Create these jobs.”
“Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored -- the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.”

Source : Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.112, Workman Publishing
“The Lord commands the wife to be submissive. Refusal to submit to the husband is therefore rebellion against God Himself. Submission to the husband is a test of her love for God as well as a test of love for her husband. The wife then must look upon her submission to her husband as an act of obedience to Christ and not merely to her husband.”
“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.”
“I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.”
“It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.”
“I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.”

Source : "Lecture: Gay Talese". Bullpen: NYU Journalism, September 14, 2006.

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