"Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things come to light you never could have predicted."

-- Mark Strand

#Light Quotes #Littles Quotes #Slow Down Quotes

“No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.”

Source : Samuel Gompers, John McBride, William Green (1948). “The American Federationist”
“Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done.”

Source : Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.
“I am a metrosexual and into male grooming - I moisturise, I exfoliate.”

Source : "What I see in the mirror" by Gary Kemp, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.
“We will work harder in the future so set your eyes on us 5 men only.. Even when we become 30 and 40 as long as you can move, be with us.”
“The blackÂest desÂpair that can take hold of any sociÂety is the fear that livÂing honÂestly is futile.”
“If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide us with light that cannot be extinguished. They go into dark rooms and poke at their souls until the contours of our own are familiar to us.”
“In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.”
“The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and at immense cost to the nation.”

Source : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 186), 1968.

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