"The unconscious creates, the ego edits."

-- Stanley Kunitz

#Ego Quotes #Unconscious Quotes

“The Bears are front-runners. Quitters. They are not a second-half team, just a bunch of cry-babies.”
“To be an effective leader, you must be trustworthy. If people donâ€™t trust you, they wonâ€™t follow you. And if they wonâ€™t follow you, your organization wonâ€™t meet its goals. Sandy Allgeier explains that personal credibility comes down to a simple truth: Itâ€™s not about the type of person you are; itâ€™s about the types of things you do. If you want to be a great leader, read The Personal Credibility Factor.”
“Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable.”
“A lot of friendship is about practice, thatâ€™s something Iâ€™ve learned as Iâ€™ve gotten older. Itâ€™s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings, itâ€™s really about having coffee every week, or talking on the phone every day or every other day - whatever suits you.”
“Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is fugitive in character, with less of the impersonal and intellectual characteristics of the schools. It is the work of talent nourished by personal experience and that of the community - rather than being taken from the experiences of painters in other times and other cultures.”

Source : Manuel Álvarez Bravo, A. D. Coleman (1987). “Manuel Álvarez Bravo”, Aperture
“Every God-given vision will become real if we will only have patience.”
“I'm not planning a career change - not unless they need someone who constantly falls on the ice and is out of breath all the time.”
“Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the best of opiates. So said Maria. But too long in solitude she'd dwelt, And too long her thoughts had felt Their strength. So when the man drew near, Out popped her thoughts and covered him with fear. Poor Maria! Better that she had kept her thoughts on a chain, For now she's alone again and all in pain; She sighs for the man that went and the thoughts that stay To trouble her dreams by night and her dreams by day.”

Source : Stevie Smith (2015). “Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith”, p.707, Faber & Faber

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