"Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision."

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Jules Olitski

#Choices Quotes #Decision Quotes #Vision Quotes

“Your needs will be met once you can find a way of projecting energy and fulfilling someone else's need.”
“Being a naive 20-something I didn't think that I could just go to the screen cartoonist's union, that I was a member of, and scream bloody murder and they would have jumped all over this guy and said, "Oh, but yes he does get screen credit."”
“If you see something wrong, if you speak out...you can change it.”
“In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.”
“Jesus is not a good way to heaven, nor even the best way. He is the only way to heaven.”
“That is why we need to travel. If we don't offer ourself to the unknown, our senses dull. Our world becomes small and we lose our sense of wonder. Our eyes don't lift to the horizon; our ears don't hear the sounds around us. The edge is off our experience, and we pass our days in a routine that is both comfortable and limiting. We wake up one day and find that we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.”

Source : Kent Nerburn (1999). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Women, Life and Love”, p.115, New World Library
“Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.”
“Success is not necessarily determined by material possessions or accomplishments. You can enjoy success simply by reaching the point where you are perfectly content with your life in every respect and you feel no dissatisfaction or pressing need for anything else. In this sense, you can be a success sitting by yourself in a quiet place contemplating the world.”

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