"You see, for me [art]'s not one of life's ornaments, rococo relaxation to be greeted affably after a day of hard work; I'm inverted on this : for me it's my very breath, the one thing necessary, and all else is excretion and a latrine."

-- Arno Hintjens

#Art Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #Relaxation Quotes

“A new thing I've been doing is just making sure I clear off my desk and try to only touch a piece of paper once, so I get the mail, open it up, deal with it then. My son's homework, or what I get from his teachers, the same way. That way, it's not nagging me, things to add to my to-do list.”
“Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.”
“Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.”
“Run from being good. Chase being great.”
“I'm always looking for great songs, and not being much of a songwriter, I depend on great songwriters to send them to me. I go through tons of stuff, and sometimes you just find material that kind of fits and becomes something special.”
“Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.”

Source : Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”
“St. Peter, on my judgment day, will not ask me about the B-2 or my defense votes. He will ask me about my vote to protect innocent human life.”
“I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.”

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