"We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline."

-- Anna Deavere Smith

#Art Quotes #Reality Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?”
“It's been proven that fitting more activity into your day can greatly improve your health.”
“With your votes you are working for your future. It is not a holiday; it is the most serious day of work since you were born. Better to come in clothing dirty from work than with your soul filthy from having sold your right to justice.”
“Nobody follows me where I go, Over the mountains or valleys below; Nobody sees where the wild winds blow, Only the Father in Heaven can know.”

Source : Maud Lindsay (2010). “Mother Stories”, p.120, Heart of Dixie Publishing
“God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be.”
“A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exit in nature. Things are only the terminal points, or rather the meeting points of actions, cross sections cut through actions, snapshots. Neither can a pure verb, an abstract motion, be possible in nature. The eye sees noun and verb as one, things in motion, motion in things.”

Source : Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound, Jonathan Stalling, Lucas Klein (2008). “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition”, p.82, Fordham Univ Press
“When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how to write songs that resonated with people.”
“Whoever thought the future would feel so much like the present?”

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