"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work."

-- Pearl S. Buck

#Life Quotes #Beautiful Quotes #Work Quotes

“I don't think that jealousy and love and hate and anger and all those things have changed in the past 200 years - people just express themselves differently.”
“So let me put it thus: Hold on to your principles of morality and ethics, use your willpower to the limit, pay great heed to every noble, uplifting desire that is in you; but realize that these things alone are not enough, that they will never bring you to the desired place. We have to realize that all our best is totally inadequate, that a spiritual battle must be fought in a spiritual manner.”
“What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.”
“I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.”
“The majority of the people I've taken photographs of, I've had conversations with. "What are your goals and aspirations?" "What are you about?" It's not just about me capturing the image; I want to know what you are about.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up.”
“And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.”

Source : Alfred Marshall (2006). “Elements of Economics of Industry: Being the First Volume of Elements of Economics”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.
“We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.”

Source : Peter Brook (1996). “The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

You may also like:

Albert Einstein
Theoretical Physicist
Anchee Min
Author
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright
John Steinbeck
Author
Lin Yutang
Writer
Luise Rainer
Film actress
Sinclair Lewis
Novelist
Toni Morrison
Novelist
Walt Whitman
Poet