"I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else."

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Source : "Libussa". Play by Franz Grillparzer. Act 2, 1848.

Franz Grillparzer

#Pride Quotes #Insignificance Quotes

“You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.”
“Making art now means working in the face of uncertainty; it means living with doubt and contradiction, doing something no one much cares whether you do, and for which there may be neither an audience nor reward. Making the work you want to make means setting aside these doubts so that you may see clearly what you have done, and thereby see where to go next. Making the work you want to make means finding nourishment within the work itself.”

Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.2, Image Continuum Press
“If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.”
“I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ.”
“Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time”

Source : "Cruising Through Cuba’s Past and Present" by Elizabeth Holbrook, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2017.
“I think whatever is going on with my brain, I'm very, very - and I'm not saying this as a positive thing, it's just a fact - I'm very creative. I have a very strong imagination, and have since I was a little kid. That is where a lot of my world comes from. It's like I'm off somewhere else. And I can have a problem in life because of that, because I'm always off in some other world thinking about something else. It's constant.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. April 15, 2011.
“Here's some free advice; like the folkies of yore, you need to be not just a writer of songs, you need to be a lover of songs, a listener of songs and a collector of songs. If you hear a song in a club that knocks you out or you hear an old recording of a great song you never knew existed, it does not diminish you to record it; it actually exalts you because you have brought a great song from obscurity to the ear of the public.”
“Now is the age of anxiety.”

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