"Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets."

-- Joseph Conrad

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“Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.”
“Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.”

Source : Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It's what I've trained for, from the first sketch to the fabric. Making dresses that are different from the usual style, and a lot of fun to wear.”
“Leaders are visionaries. They see the outcome. Leaders are communicators. They tell us what they're seeing. They hold the dream, letting us feel that it's possible. Our minds open up to what they show us could be. We dream with them. We get excited with them, drawing on all our abilities to create the future.”

Source : Susan Collins (1996). “Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press
“You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?”
“In fact he enables us not by making us supernaturally strong, but by opening our eyes. The Holy Spirit is that power which opens eyes that are closed, hearts that are unaware and minds that shrink from too much reality.”
“Life for the living, and rest for the dead!”

Source : George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.37
“YOU YOU YOU your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edges a book of myths in which i do not appear.”

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