"Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world."

-- Paulo Coelho

#Inspiring Quotes #Creative Quotes #World Quotes

“Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.”
“He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.”
“Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.”
“Track and field has always interested me.”
“You follow a passion, a dream, a belief, a vision, and before you know it, you are an entrepreneur. Once though, when you start to understand what this means, and what the possibilities are, the accidents then stop, and you become a forever obsessed entrepreneur that doesn't rest, and never stops trying to push the envelope.”
“When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much ridicule that you would never forget it? With his morbid dream of primitive and rustic life, with his nostalgia for Homeric cheeses and legendary wool-spinners, with his hatred for the machine, steam power, and electricity, that maniac of antique simplicity is like a man who, after having reached full physical maturity, still wants to sleep in his cradle and feed himself at the breast of his decrepit old nurse in order to recover his thoughtless infancy.”

Source : "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.
“Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike.”
“Once a Catholic always a Catholic.”

Source : 'The Wrong Set' (1949) p. 168

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