"If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But never, never believe it."

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Robert Montgomery

#Believe Quotes #Mean Quotes #Lucky Quotes

“Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.”
“I had never stopped thinking about the ideal carâ€¦ All I had to do was construct a plant to build it.”
“I remember talking to my dad about legalization in a book we did together called "The Big Empty." He was saying like, "Oh, no, no, as soon as it's legalized it will be ruined." "The corporations will get their hands on it. You'll have, you know, pot with vitamin C and, you know, 'Viagratized High Toke.'" You know different things like that. That it won't be, you know, they'll put chemicals into it. It won't be that pure plant that it is now. He may have a good point there.”
“It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those thingsâ€”a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earringâ€”with immense, even startling power.”

Source : Raymond Carver (2015). “Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories”, p.25, Vintage
“Karma is not something pessimistic. If you think of karma as something wrong, you are seeing karma only according to what happened in the past. You look at the past and karma becomes a monster. So you should also look at karma in the present and future. Then karma becomes something very wide and really alive. Through karma you can understand what your destiny is. Destiny itself has no solid form; it's something you can create. You can create your life. That is why we study karma.”

Source : Dainin Katagiri (2008). “Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time”, p.174, Shambhala Publications
“But we need to pray daily for humility and honesty to see these sinful attitudes for that they really are, and then for grace and discipline to root them out of our minds and replace them with thoughts pleasing to God.”
“To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.”
“With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.”

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