"willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection."

-- Anais Nin

#Prejudice Quotes #Protection Quotes #Weak Quotes

“But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.”
“Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.”
“I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars.”
“One of my greatest talents is recognizing talent in others and giving them the forum to shine.”
“Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.”
“I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.”
“Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and perfecting the events which were to shed around the evening of his life the halo of a glorious and cloudless sunset. All things were working together for his good! And so, troubled soul, the "much tribulation" will soon be over, and as you enter the "kingdom of God" you shall then see, no longer "through a glass darkly" but in the unshadowed sunlight of the Divine presence, that "all things" did "work together" for your personal and eternal good.”
“What I had later learned was that the FBI knew I was going to New York a couple days after the raid.”

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