"One of Still Lifes many achievements is its paradoxical mix of intensity and stillness. Alexander Longs visions of landscape, identity and "History itself, a joke that no one gets" are simultaneously meditative and alert, restless and focused. This is a smart, compassionate poet. Still Life is a mesmerizing new book."

-- Terrance Hayes

#Smart Quotes #Book Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up.”
“The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.”
“Allow regular time for silent reflection. Turn inward and digest what has happened. Let the senses rest and grow still.”

Source : John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.12, Green Dragon Books
“Public opinion rarely considers the needs of the next generation or the history of the last. It is frequently hampered by myths and misinformation, by stereotypes and shibboleths, and by an inate resistance to innovation.”
“Every morning I'd have coffee with my wife and we would discuss ideas. Sixty percent of what I did for the stores was concepts. The other forty percent was correcting and cleaning up other concepts in house, or doing final art on my concepts. Most of my concepts were so finished they could turn them over to somebody else.”
“You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear.”
“A really important part of competition is coming back, trying to do it better the second time than you did the first.”
“Money demoralizes even the giver.”

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