"To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind."

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Source : Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz

Agnes Martin

#Giving Up Quotes #Mind Quotes #Progress Quotes

“The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.”
“I don't like confrontation.”
“It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.”

Source : "A Lifetime of Secrets". Book by Frank Warren, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2007.
“The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.”
“I won't go back and live in the sea again.”
“I think [the virtual choir] speaks well to a benevolent future for the Internet.”
“I don't mean to toot my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me and he had five thousand dollars, let's just say things would have turned out differently.”
“Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.”

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