"Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest."

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Wayne Thiebaud

#Tough Quotes #Finest Quotes #Very Good Quotes

“He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar. He stood for everything she feared and hated and despised; but she knew she could love him... This was no choice made with the mind.”
“Mortal life is like unto the traveler on a homeward journey.”
“History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.”

Source : Christina Baldwin, Ann Linnea (2010). “The Circle Way: A Leader in Every Chair”, p.144, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“I am a part of everything that I have read.”
“Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity â€” which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.”
“As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of empathy with more advanced ones, the latter are merely elaborations on the former and remain dependent on them. This also means that empathy comes naturally to us. It is not something we only learn later in life, or that is culturally constructed.”
“I was curious. Here was a character where I just didn't know how they were going to write him into 13 episodes without it being one note. My fear was that I didn't want to join something where I was just going to be this prop and this mustache twirling character.”
“Goody Proctor is a gossiping liar!”

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