"If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode... because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent."

-- John Cleese

#Intelligent Quotes #Creative Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave.”

Source : "Jimmy Choo's Tamara Mellon" by Nancy Hass, www.elle.com. October 14, 2009.
“I'm really glad that I made a lot of mistakes, poorly chose my friends throughout my twenties, and didn't have a rocket trajectory that set me on one path without making any mistakes or having any setbacks. The older I get, the more I realize that it's all of these failed, horrible things from my past, and the stories that they generated, that are the things I will draw on for the rest of my life.”
“Weâ€™ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, weâ€™ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I havenâ€™t seen her for some time”
“I park two blocks away from Nickelodeon studios and I hop on my skateboard and I skateboard the rest of the way to the studio.”

Source : "Michelangelo Knows Best – An Interview with Greg Cipes". Interview with Dak, www.wired.com. March 1, 2013.
“All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.”

Source : "Kemp Courts Harlem Voters With Open Arms, Little Hope". www.nytimes.com. September 7, 1996.
“I was originally going to become a biochemist, but it just got way too complicated.”
“In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.”
“Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so!”

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