"The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task."

-- Andre Gide

#Tasks Quotes #Capacity Quotes

“Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.”
“As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are.”
“The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.”

Source : Sir Henry Taylor (1847). “Notes from Life, in six essays”, p.12
“I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.”
“Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.”

Source : "Q&A: Tim and Eric Cash in on Their 'Billion Dollar Movie'". Interview with Max Evry, www.mtv.com. February 29, 2012.
“I like practicing law.”
“However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.”
“People often tell me I could be a great man. I'd rather be a good man.”

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