"Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing."

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Source : Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.1655, Delphi Classics

Thomas de Quincey

#Congratulations Quotes #Skills Quotes #Missing Quotes

“Privilege is invisible to those who have it.”

Source : "'Privilege is invisible to those who have it': engaging men in workplace equality". Interview with Fiona Smith, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2016.
“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”
“A mental image gives you a framework upon which to work. It is like the drawing of the architect, or the map of the explorer. Think over this for a few moments until you get the idea firmly fixed in your mind.”

Source : William Walker Atkinson (2016). “Practicing mental influence”, p.40, William Walker Atkinson
“I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.”
“I tend to be a very logical, practical person.”
“When anybody pays you to be creative, you're very lucky.”

Source : Interview with Genevieve Koski, tv.avclub.com. March 19, 2010.
“Every recording session and tour is a very valuable time to me in terms of getting to spend time with the musicians - whether they're friends and family or people I've just met - because I don't have a job where I get to interact with people everyday.”
“We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising, explosive and outrageous: the renewal of the unknown.”

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