"Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible."

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Source : "The Golden Notebook". Book by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. 1962.

Doris Lessing

#Design Quotes #Recognition Quotes #Impossible Quotes

“Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug.”
“If we are honest with ourselves and listen quietly ... we all harbor one fiercely held aspiration for our healthcare - that it keep us healthy.”
“The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms, it points most clearly to the fourth dimension.”

Source : Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Wassily Kandinsky (Illustrated)”, p.113, Delphi Classics
“I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and not the real one. Sometimes she takes it too personally.”
“If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.”
“To think and to be fully alive are the same.”

Source : Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it's a challenge to pull any idea together. On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition.”
“The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be.”

Source : Sir Ronald Ross (1910). “The Prevention of Malaria”

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