"But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese."

-- Rick Wakeman

#Two Quotes #Cheesy Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and without its being thought about. It is from this, in my opinion, that grace largely derives.”
“No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”

Source : Edward Hopper, Hayward Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art (1981). “Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981”
“As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.”
“Blay said yet again, that old, familiar voice cutting through all of those years of rejection and judgment, giving him not just a rope of acceptance to hang on to, but a flesh-and-blood hand to lead him out of the darkness of his past... And into a future that didn't require lies or excuses, because what he was, and what they were, was both extraordinary-and not hing out of the ordinary. Love, after all, was universal.”
“What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.”

Source : Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.71, Image
“The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the future is more than a whim of the gods and that men and women are not passive before nature.”

Source : Peter L. Bernstein (2012). “Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons
“I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.”

Source : "Dominic Monaghan on working with Wild Things' "beautiful, gentle spiders"". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. January 29, 2013.
“Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters.”

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