"Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril."

-- Sun Tzu

#Inspirational Quotes #Art Quotes #Fear Quotes

“Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.”
“EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.”
“Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.”
“A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot. It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, and in the end, doesn't get particularly good reviews.”
“Also everyone's hearts are in the right place when you do a small movie. You're not doing it for the money; you're not doing it for the possibility of an Oscar nomination. You are doing it because you love the material.”
“My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.”

Source : Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”
“If anyone here is secretly dreaming of making the Olympics, I can tell you exactly how to do it, two words: Sustained Obsession. The obsession isn't so hard. But keeping it sustained is a tough nut to crack. A heart-felt enemy can go a long way to sustaining your obsession. Love your enemy.”
“Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures. ... They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities.”

Source : Nancy Signorielli, George Gerbner (1988). “Violence and Terror in the Mass Media: An Annotated Bibliography”, p.21, Greenwood Publishing Group

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