"If a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted in the reality of the old world view; as a lunatic or alienated artist, his own neurotic traits can become magnified as they tremble with the new energy pouring in from the universal source."

-- William Irwin Thompson

#Mean Quotes #Reality Quotes #Artist Quotes

“All types of knowledge ultimately lead to self-knowledge. So, therefore, these people are asking me to teach them, not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.”
“When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation. He made me see that I could do this for a living.”
“California has a beautiful coastline. It can be a rough coastline. The waves are huge. The rocks are steep. Same thing in Vancouver. It has a beautiful coastline. It's dramatic.”
“When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.”
“Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.”
“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”
“One lives everything down in time.”

Source : Arthur B. Reeve, R. Austin Freeman, John Russell Fearn, Cleveland Moffett, Samuel Hopkins Adams (2012). “The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective MEGAPACK ®: 25 Classic Tales of Detection”, p.3069, Wildside Press LLC
“Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it.”

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