"Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart."

-- Clement Greenberg

#Truth Quotes #Honesty Quotes #Heart Quotes

“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
“My face is on bubblegum wrappers now!”
“You didn't want to die. Most mortals don't, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you. Almost all of those who take their own lives wish at the last moment that they hadn't. They see at the end how much they've given up, how precious life is, even when it's treated them like dirt and crushed their dreams. Many think they've passed beyond hope, but they never really have, not until they pass beyond life itself. Alas, that knowledge comes too late for most would-be-suicides and they die with regret. Very few are offered the chance that you have been handed.”
“Concentrate on what you need to do... Do step one. Begin! That's the important thing- Did you do step one? Did you actually do it?. . . It's not a matter of 'Can you do it?' If you do it, you're doing it.”
“A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.”
“Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness.”
“Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.”
“The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock.”

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