"It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late."

-- John R. Platt

#Carpe Diem Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Years Quotes

“While others are engaged in inferior and menial tasks in which they encounter many difficulties, how can I sit here at peace and do nothing? I must and shall benefit them, but without ever succumbing to the poison of self-importance.”
“Creating the opportunities for other people and solid projects, things that I like, for sure, definitely. Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce as well.”
“I can't remember the first song I learned to play on bass, but the first song I learned to play on guitar was 'For Your Love' by the Yardbirds. That kind of was the beginning for me. I thought it was a great song and I loved the open chord progression at the beginning of that song.”
“The responsibility of being a lead is the most challenging part playing the character enjoyable is what I live for. But it's just being the liaison through, you know, the middle of so many departments. I'm connected to so many departments and you have to deal with so many people day in and day out. And the dialogue and the scripts it's the work. The work is the most challenging part.”
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are”
“Extra interest signifies extra risk.”
“I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.”
“Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever been mixed in paint.”

Source : "Painting by Addition". Essay by Joseph Plaskett, 1994.

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