"If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?"

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Marie Dressler

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“I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.”

Source : Hugh Prather (1983). “Notes to Myself”, Bantam
“I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.”
“Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering.... The love of God did not protect His own Son.... He will not necessarily protect us - not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process.”
“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.”
“I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.”

Source : Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.102, Parrot Press
“Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?”

Source : Hermann Broch (2011). “The Sleepwalkers”, p.483, Vintage
“it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.”
“The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read.”

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