"If you want to change your art, change your habits."

-- Clement Greenberg

#Art Quotes #Want Quotes #Habit Quotes

“Our first priority is our kids.”
“I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.”

Source : Romain Gary (1983). “King Solomon”, Harvill Press
“I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before.”
“It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.”
“[T]hough individual oppression may now and then proceed fro the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter . . .”
“Maybe you have thought that doing... little kindnesses doesn't make much difference, but as Alma said, "By small and simple things are great things brought to pass."”
“Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a precarious race straddle that most members of the breakthrough generation seem to reject. Even the most well meaning white Obama supporters seem to take deep satisfaction in this idea. Obama, they insisted, could be raceless, a reasurringly optimistic view of America's deepest burden that ignores countless peices of evidence to the contrary.”

Source : Gwen Ifill (2009). “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama”, p.167, Anchor
“So upright Quakers please both man and God.”

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