"What about our refusal to look squarely at the degradation of the planet we inhabit? In the last election cycle many candidates refused even to acknowledge the hard science, irrefutable science, of climate change. The president, while readily accepting the facts, has done far too little to alter them. How long are we, are you, prepared to wait?"

-- David Remnick

#Long Quotes #Waiting Quotes #President Quotes

“The faculty of continual transformation... is a profound expression of the dynamic character of the mind”

Source : Anagarika Brahmacari Govinda (1976). “Creative meditation and multi-dimensional consciousness”, Quest Books
“I work whenever I'm let.”
“I think that I'm not really preoccupied with my identity or what I am as an artist and how that can be wrapped up in medium. I just think about whatever project it is that I'm doing.”
“The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.”
“Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.”
“It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.”
“What batters you becomes your strength.”
“There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.”

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