"You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff"

-- Quincy Jones

#Mistake Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone's face and it imperils the sitter's self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body.”
“Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.”
“I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done in China...I don't know who it was...it must have been a man...a well-educated man. I don't know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn't willing...and God looked down...and saw Gladys Aylward...and God said, 'Well, she's willing.'”
“You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.”
“The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.”
“I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”
“Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”
“Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist.”

Source : Simon Conway Morris (2003). “Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe”, p.315, Cambridge University Press

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