"Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsession."

-- Selima Hill

#Talent Quotes #Obsession Quotes #Invisible Quotes

“A train will bring you back to the place you came from, but it will not return you home.”

Source : Jedediah Berry (2009). “The Manual of Detection: A Novel”, p.213, Penguin
“I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.”
“Terrorism is carried out purposefully, in a cold-blooded, calculated fashion. The declared goals of the terrorist may change from place to place. He supposedly fights to remedy wrongs -- social, religious, national, racial. But for all these problems his only solution is the demolition of the whole structure of society. No partial solution, not even the total redressing of the grievance he complains of, will satisfy him -- until our social system is destroyed or delivered into his hands.”
“It was like when we went to Mexico City [Olympics in 1968] it was sun and shining and bright. When we came home it was chaotic and storms everywhere. I think the most devastating thing was to make the adjustment as to why so many individuals that you grew up with in the sport thought it necessary to turn their backs and walk away from you.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies is infinite, and only a few pass this test of affinity with human nature.”

Source : Robert Wright (2001). “Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny”, p.37, Vintage
“I think Paris Hilton is really our generation's Marilyn Monroe. She's the image of the youth today. There's a real fascination with Paris, ranging on the obsessive. I'm repulsed by her, but because of her notoriety, she has access to an audience.”
“I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.”
“Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.”

Source : FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Mar 01, 2015

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