"People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others."

-- Blaise Pascal

#Discovery Quotes #People Quotes #Mind Quotes

“An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance â€“ almost dull, in fact â€“ in reality, is crammed with thousands of undertone tensions and full of expectancy. Slightly apprehensive lest it should be outraged.”
“I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.”

Source : Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1922). “My life and some letters”
“When I was 17, I was hyperactive and annoyed my teachers.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion, had been merely the bourgeois virtues of law and order.”
“They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.”
“You never get the high and you never get the low.”
“History does not belong to us; we belong to it.”

Source : Hans Georg Gadamer, J. E. Malpas, Ulrich von Arnswald, Jens Kertscher (2002). “Gadamer's Century: Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer”, p.36, MIT Press
“Today, everybody is always rushing. Designers have to make collections one after the other. Actresses have to make movies one after the other. They have to do all that in order to still be there - to still be out there. So to step away and be absent and to lose yourself completely and to really come back and find yourself again - that's something quite rare.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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