"To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity."

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Source : Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.12, Faber & Faber

Basil Bunting

#Appreciate Quotes

“Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off.”

Source : People Magazine, March 26, 2001.
“Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.”

Source : Arie de Geus (2002). “The Living Company”, p.3, Harvard Business Press
“Don't try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.”
“Release what no longer serves you to create a space for that which does. And yes, sometimes this even means people.”
“When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing the darkness, etch familiar landmarks in silver against a velvet sky. Unsuspected definition of form and contour is revealed.”
“I've had lots of parts in movies that I've never seen. I mean no disrespect to them. It was really fun to go act, but I'm not calling my friends and saying, 'I couldn't be more proud of this picture. You should go see it.”
“I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?”
“A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it”

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