"Most of us are taught from an early age to pay far more attention to signals coming from other people than from within. We are encouraged to ignore our own needs and wants and to concentrate on living up to others expectations."

-- Nathaniel Branden

#People Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Age Quotes

“It may not be replicable: One of the hardest transition that a developing country can make is the transition to middle-class status. Governments have to let go, people start insisting on following their own lights, etc.”

Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.
“I want to be remembered for Swiss Family Robinson and Old Yeller. I think Swiss is probably my favorite film”
“Jacob's little smirk became a full-blown grin, and I knew he was picturing Charlie showing up to arrest him. This grin was too bitter, too full of mocking to satisfy me. This wasn't the smile I'd been waiting to see.”
“Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The fact of the matter is that mistakes are really important way to learn.”
“In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.”

Source : "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.
“People talk so much to me about the beauty of confidence. They seem to entirely ignore the much more subtle beauty of doubt. To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. The Apostle Thomas was artistic up to a certain point. He appreciated the value of shadows in a picture. To be on the alert is to live. To be lulled into security is to die.”
“A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.”

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