"Perfection can be a fetish"

-- Bernard Leach

#Motivational Quotes #Thought Provoking Quotes #Perfection Quotes

“Technically, the weight of pain is the weight of shadow.”

Source : Carl Phillips (2014). “The Rest of Love: Poems”, p.40, Macmillan
“As my mom always said, 'You'd rather have smile lines than frown lines.'”
“Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.”
“You don't need a scale to tell you whether you're allowed to like yourself today. You are. You belong here. No matter what you weigh, you deserve joy and happiness.”
“Haters are the people who will broadcast your failures and whisper your success.”
“You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.”

Source : "Livingstone Fails to Get Disrepute Charge Dropped". www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2005.
“Being able to influence the outcome, being able to do something about it, to be able to stop the bleeding. You're not being useful if you're just standing there going "Oh, that's awful!" You're only useful if you actually do something about it and I think that goes for everything. If you actually do something about what's in front of you, then you are actually contributing and you haven't got time to be self-centred or sorry for yourself. You should be doing something about the person you really should feel sorry for.”
“Success is the 'discovery,' the creation of an idea, pulling something out of the depths of your mind that never existed before. To further complete that success, a painting is made as a communication tool for that idea.”

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