"Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls."

-- Stirling Moss

#Years Quotes #Car Quotes #Calling Quotes

“Now I understand what exhaustion is. Itâ€™s not just a code word for ***** addiction. People donâ€™t teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and itâ€™s something Iâ€™d never had to handle, because Iâ€™d been rejected for so long.”
“How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?”
“I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style.”
“We are always in the space in-between... all the spaces where you are not actually at home. You haven't arrived yet.... This is where our mind is the most open. We are alert, we are sensitive, and destiny can happen. We do not have any barriers and we are vulnerable. Vulnerability is important. It means we are completely alive and this is an extremely important space. This is for me the space from which my work generates.”
“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”

Source : Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Castle of Llyr: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.11, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“We've formed many a theory and belief, but as we look about the human world, it is clear that nobody actually knows what's going on. Yet claims to Truth are being made at every hand, including the claim that there is no Truth.”

Source : Steve Hagen (2012). “Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense: An Inquiry Into Science, Philosophy, and Perception”, p.6, Sentient Publications
“A director once said, when I was complaining about something or other, "I agree, it is terrible. The worst thing you can do to an actor is give him a job." That shut me up and broke off a big hunk of my actor's cynical armor.”
“Maybe honeymoons are God's anesthesia. Like the "laughing gas" used by dentists, perhaps honeymoons are designed to protect us from a bit of the pain and fear involved in doing something that, while scary and uncomfortable, is for our own good in the long run.”

Source : Sue Patton Thoele (2003). “The Courage to be a Stepmom: Finding Your Place Without Losing Yourself”, p.90, Council Oak Books

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