"I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art."

-- Damien Hirst

#Art Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.”
“Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.”
“Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.”

Source : Frederick Locker-Lampson (1874). “London Lyrics”, p.32
“Startups allow technologists and scientists to take risks and change plans in a way that would be frowned upon in a big company. Having said that, big companies will play a key role in certain areas and in partnerships with little companies. Each has its strengths.”
“Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.”
“I have a responsibility to lots of people in my life. I have three children, I'm a wife, I have 60 staff and lots of charity shops, so therefore I have a responsibility to be well, I think. I have a personal trainer three times a week, I do yoga and I meditate.”
“Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind.”

Source : "Laird Hamilton: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 23, 2011.
“Refined, intense, wise, stiring, immediate, subtile, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the erotic moods they investigate, these versions shimmer and startle with a palpable desire to be heard, and a mystical sense of impermanence. This is a transmission of a vital, extraordinary tradition.”

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