"I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn't mean much."

-- Robert M. Pirsig

#Mean Quotes #Important Quotes #Causes Quotes

“A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.”
“We live in a moment that is pregnant with possibility.”
“The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.”
“Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.”
“In times past there were rituals of passage that conducted a boy into manhood, where other men passed along the wisdom and responsibilities that needed to be shared. But today we have no rituals. We are not conducted into manhood; we simply find ourselves there.”
“The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.”
“I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn`t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn`t think of myself as liberated, and I don`t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn`t know any other way to be, or any other way to live.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Aug 26, 2013
“Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience will have been rendered: not a mere statement for the information or persuasion of a brain, but an effective communication across the void of space and time from one center of consciousness to another.”

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