"Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting."

-- Emmet Fox

#Self Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Indirect Quotes

“Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.".”
“I don't believe in luck; it's just dedication to the technique plus good physical condition.”
“It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor.”
“The human condition is what it is. We can see beauty and wonder in the world, but we also face imminent death and uncertainty, and we often need to sidestep the idea of time and communicate with each other, not with words but with a sense of community and union. I don't want to make an overreaching statement, but I think that's the function of culture.”

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“Digitization has created opportunities for everybody to accumulate information in a way they were never able to, and analyze it with a speed that just wasn't there.”

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“Don't be afraid to have nothing.”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.157, Spiegel & Grau
“An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A Zed and Two Noughts, a third of which was a homage to Vermeer. Conceivably, if you are a list-enthusiast like me, the New York telephone directory might be fascinating, demographically, geographically, historically, typographically, cartographically; but I am sure no compliment was intended.”
“Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone - big actor or not. Whether they're big movie stars or not doesn't really matter.”

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