"I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but it's just that you know you obviously particularly admire things that you recognize yourself as not having."

-- Stephen Fry

#Self Quotes #Expression Quotes #People Quotes

“I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.”
“But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.”
“And empty words are evil.”
“Too often we become so consumed with how we spend our days that we lose track of how we are spending our lives.”
“The key to winning is poise under stress.”
“Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.”
“Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a field where language, thought and vision act upon one another. There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental and visual details to be found in more recent art.. ..He declared that he wanted to kill art ("for myself") but his persistent attempts to destroy frames of reference altered our thinking, established new units of thought, a "new thought for that object".”

Source : "Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)". Jasper Johns, "Artforum International", Volume 7, No. 3, November 1968.
“Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years.”

Source : Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.189, Profile Books

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