"A ballerina's life can be glorious. But it does not get any easier. I don't think anyone must ever think about it getting easier."

-- Alicia Markova

#Thinking Quotes #Doe Quotes #Ballerina Quotes

“I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed, and the success of mixtures downtown (on in the most intensive portions of cities, whatever they are called) is related to the mixture possible in other part of cities.”
“This is not about Republican or Democrat. It is about our children, it's about our families, it is about our country, and frankly, ladies and gentlemen, it is about the world. We've got to leave here and march, and make sure Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are president and vice president of the United States.”
“Please note that, at no point in the performance, does my hand leave the end of my arm...”
“Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed in the undivided self: only as we are in communion with ourselves can we find community with others. Community is an outward and visible sign of an inward and invisible grace, the flowing of personal identity and integrity into the world of relationships.”

Source : Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.92, John Wiley & Sons
“There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing you must try to write, when you do so, is a real sonnet, and not a practice sonnet.”

Source : "Just keep practising for real" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2002.
“The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author, a quotation gives completeness to the whole; it seals his feelings with undisputed authority.”
“Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!”

Source : Kenneth Grahame (2016). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.13, Xist Publishing
“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”

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