"Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone."

-- Joseph Joubert

#Appreciate Quotes #Crucible Quotes #Gold Quotes

“Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.”
“Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road... is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way.”
“It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until, at last, you come to talk in Scriptural language, and your spirit is flavored with the words of the Lord, so that your blood is Bibline and the very essence of the Bible flows from you.”
“I opposed the war in Iraq because I did not believe it was in our national security interest, and I still don't. What we [America] did was akin to taking a baseball bat to a beehive. Our primary security threat right now is terrorism ---and by doing what we did in Iraq, we've managed to alienate a good part of the world and most of the allies whose intelligence and other help we need to combat and defeat terrorism.”
“Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.15, Vintage
“And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time.”
“Obviously, there are lots of lessons to be learned on a first movie.”
“I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.”

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