"The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material."

-- Michelangelo

#Block Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Sculpture Quotes

“Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.”

Source : "Capitalism: Hollywood's Miscast Villain". www.wsj.com. June 04, 2010.
“We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the body. And at death, what happens basically, is that the shadow withdraws, or the thing which cast the shadow withdraws, and metabolism ceases, and matter which had been organized into a dissipative structure in a very localized area, sustaining itself against entropy by cycling material in and degrading it and expelling it, that whole phenomenon ceases, but the thing which ordered it is not affected by that.”
“I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.”
“Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, "Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 147, 1895.
“I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.”
“One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things to be done in the world is to seek arrangements under which such pressure may be removed, so that opportunity may be renewed and hope may be revived.”
“You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.”

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