"I'm in a foul mood as I'm making stupid mistakes... This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away... what a rage I was in!"

-- Claude Monet

#Morning Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Stupid Quotes

“The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough.”

Source : Sheila Kaye-Smith (1937). “Three Ways Home”
“The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performanceâ€: â€œThe differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is, due to genetically prescribed talent. Instead, these differences reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance.”
“Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.”
“Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.”

Source : Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.74, Scholastic
“I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.”
“Who are the moneylenders? They are those who were driven out of the Temple by Christ Himself 2000 years ago. They are those who never work but live on fraud.”

Source : "Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938.
“Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.”
“I've been playing the CNN Drinking Game, have you ever played that? Where you do a shot every time George Bush says the word "evil"? Oh, I'm a wreck! You gotta do a double shot every time he says "evildoers". Chug the bottle for "axis of evil". Are you a president or an exorcist?!”

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