"It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea."

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Source : "Gerhard Richter: An Artist Beyond Isms". The New York Times Magazine, January 27, 2002.

Gerhard Richter

#Ideas Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Danger Quotes

“I'm just being selfish..... I'm here on my own free will... I used to always cry and give up... I nearly went the wrong way... But you... You showed me the right way... I was always chasing you... Wanting to overtake you... I just wanted to walk with you... I wanted to be with you... You changed me! Your smile saved me! So I'm not afraid to die protecting you!!! Because I-- Love You...”
“We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.”

Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.11, Anchor
“It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.”

Source : Zoë Akins (1923). “Déclassée: Daddy's gone a-hunting; and Greatness - a comedy ...”
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

Source : "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.
“All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.”

Source : "Robert Zoellick: “Getting Stuff Done” at the World Bank and Beyond" by Mark V. Vlasic, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2012.
“I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.”
“Great problems are now being handled, keeping every thinking man in suspense; the unity or multiplicity of human races; the creation of man 1,000 years or 1,000 centuries ago; the fixity of species, or the slow and progressive transformation of one species into another; the eternity of matter; the idea of a God unnecessary: such are some of the questions that humanity discusses nowadays.”
“Lend.â€ â€œLend?â€ Raquel asked. â€œYes, as in, lend me your self.â€ He shimmered into Raquel again. â€œWhy not Borrow?â€ I asked. â€œBetter yet, Steal?”

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