"This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other with more integrity, more curiosity, more wholeheartedness."

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Source : "What Is Art? Favorite Famous Definitions, from Antiquity to Today" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. June 22, 2012.

Maria Popova

#Art Quotes #Integrity Quotes #Self Quotes

“Coach's Rule: never admit a lack of experience or knowledge. Carry on at all times as though you've guided a hundred champion crews. Honesty is not the best policy when leading a bunch of college rowers. They are looking for strong, disciplined leadership and not a kinder, gentler coach. Once you've established a certain attitude and demeanor, it's nearly impossible to change to a difference mode in mid-season.”
“To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The confusing thing is we now live in a society where it's not illegal to be an asshole, but it's illegal to slap one.”

Source : "Ronda Rousey: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2012.
“To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.”
“The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.”
“What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.”
“Homicide is 0.8% of deaths. Diet-related disease is over 60%. But no one talks about it.”
“We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good. We donâ€™t want to be wrong because then weâ€™ll feel bad. But we could be more compassionate toward all these parts of ourselves. The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller. Wanting situations and relationships to be solid, permanent, and graspable obscures the pith of the matter, which is that things are fundamentally groundless.”

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