"Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter."

-- B. C. Forbes

#Inspirational Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Doors Quotes

“Why? Why are they always wanting to kill Jews?”
“Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.”

Source : Helen Frankenthaler, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (1980). “Helen Frankenthaler prints, 1961-1979”, HarperCollins
“The most effective way to close down the human mind and to manipulate its sense of self is to program into it some form of dogma. A dogma will always vehemently defend itself from other information and repel any alternative opinion which contradicts its narrow, solidified view. Dogmas become a person's sense of security and means of retaining power, and humanity tends to cling to both until its knuckles turn white. Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy.”
“After I was married a year I remembered things like radio stations and forgot my husband.”
“A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.”
“People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.”
“That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?”
“All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death.”

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