"Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach."

-- Brian Eno

#Situation Quotes

“Many things that I have accomplished in my life were not because I knew they would make me happy, but because it made my enemies unhappy.”
“My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. All my works in pastels are the products of obsessional neurosis and are therefore inextricably connected to my disease. I create pieces even when I donâ€™t see hallucinations, though.”
“Time is the seed of the Universe.”
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
“Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.”
“At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.”
“Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.”

Source : "Performativity". Book by James Loxley, p. 81, 2006.
“The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.”

Source : "Randy Jackson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2011.

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