"Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance."

-- Virgil

#Patience Quotes #Determination Quotes #Philosophical Quotes

“I was teaching live drawing in a community college and students started zoning in on the face and spending a couple of hours on that and then putting the rest of the body on the face only in the last hour. It didn't work to just tell them, 'Well, you're really not thinking of the body as a totality.' So in desperation I would put a drape over the model's head so they couldn't see it. They had to draw the body and then at the end of the session for an hour I would take the drape off just to try to reverse their procedure.”
“Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.”
“Theres simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being put in the hands of the consumer. But the important thing that gets lost with some of these business owners who are very upset with us is its the whole picture that counts.”
“This is certainly the raunchiest, if you use that word, raunchy. The roots of Jim Henson, though, was adult comedy.”
“When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.”

Source : James H. Austin (2011). “Meditating Selflessly: Practical Neural Zen”, p.12, MIT Press
“There is absolutely no difference between religion and politics at all in Jesus' time. In other words, every seemingly religious word that came out of Jesus' mouth had very clear and unmistakable political connotations to it.”
“Let's have the type of night where it's 5 a.m. and one of us has definitely punched someone who's been on a Disney Channel show.”
“My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads and sagas. Pray do not confuse the exercise of the imagination with mere mendacity. I am a master of the mysteries of words, their meanings and music and mellifluous magic.”

Source : Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

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