"Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present."

-- Peter Behrens

#Thinking Quotes #Looks Quotes #Appearance Quotes

“The mind can be our best friend and advocate in getting what we want in life, or it can pull the brakes on and be a nasty little foe â€“ the choice is yours â€“ choose your attitude.”
“A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.”
“Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time knowing better, but believing anyway.”

Source : "At Home With Larry Sultan" by Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 7, 2014.
“My predictions are notably inaccurate”
“I think after a few years and working on so many projects, you don't get jaded but the level of your expectations is minimal, especially the way the music industry is today.”
“When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.”
“In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.”
“The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.”

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