"Itâ€™s a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I donâ€™t know of any first-rate artist who hasnâ€™t manifested in his career an appalling patience, a willingness to wait and to do his best now in the expectation that next year he will do better."

-- Mark Van Doren

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“I don't have very eclectic tastes in music.”

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“I donâ€™t believe for a second that weightlifting is a sport. They pick up a heavy thing and put it down again. To me, thatâ€™s indecision.”
“Walk out of any doorway feel your way, feel your way like the day before Maybe you'll find direction around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you.”
“People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.”
“Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching, they alter the hue and make them white.”
“Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.”
“I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?”
“In many of our [online] courses, the median response time for a question on the question and answer forum was 22 minutes - which is not a level of service I have ever offered to my Stanford students.”

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