"To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species."

-- Norman Cousins

#Men Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Needs Quotes

“It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is not that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.”
“I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.”

Source : "Jon Raymond’s Californian Epic". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 1, 2017.
“Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.”
“Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.”
“Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.”
“Love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart.”

Source : Song: Better Together, Album: In Between Dreams, 2005
“Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.”
“I began to research the concept of dimensionality from the point of view of quality, and not just quantity, as a mathematician might do. Taking my clues from the theosophical use made of the Vedantic levels of reality, I identified the western notion of Energy (as someting which is effecatious by means of motion), with the idea of Time. The more comprehensive dimension 'eternity' I defined as a form of energy which is efficacious without motion. In this manner I began to establish the qualities of dimensions and open out the seemingly monolithic concept of energy.”

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