"I think being an artist and taking on those challenges is just how it is for me. Because I was always a foreigner, I was always the outsider."

-- Tavares Strachan

#Artist Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus.”
“Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.”
“There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.”
“The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.111, Vintage
“What's normal to you is normal to you.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“With the coming of television, and the knowledge of how it could be used to seduce voters, the old political values disappeared. Something new, murky, undefined started to rise from the mists.”

Source : Joe McGinniss (1969). “The Selling of the President 1968”
“Any human being is really good at certain things. The problem is that the things you're good at come naturally. And since most people are pretty modest instead of an arrogant S.O.B. like me, what comes naturally, you don't see as a special skill. It's just you. It's what you've always done.”
“Everything started coming into my head, ... I was the youngest world champ and now I'm the oldest world champ; it's been seven years since I won my last title and this is my seventh one ... but all those numbers and things are not as important as the feeling.”

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