"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else."

-- Marcus Aurelius

#Death Quotes #Philosophical Quotes #Dying Quotes

“I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.”
“Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant blunders. Entire schools have been founded on misinterpretations of certain aspects of the masters. Lamentable mistakes have resulted from the thoughtless enthusiasm with which men have sought inspiration from the worst qualities of remarkable artists because they are unable to reproduce the sublime elements in their work.”
“Leadership that is entirely self-directed will always be pathological.Â The only thing worse than worshipping an idol is to act like an idol.”
“Nicaragua is a World Bank and International Monetary Fund designated "heavily indebted poor country," with little legal ability to control its economic future: Everything is for sale. And once Nicaraguans decide to cash in and sell their houses or farms, they have to look far inland for anything affordable.”
“We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore.”
“In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.”
“Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.”
“I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras.”

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