"I'd rather be honest and lose than be dishonest and win"

-- Greg McKeown

#Winning Quotes #Honest Quotes #Being Honest Quotes

“If Harriet Miers were not a crony of the president of the United States, her nomination to the Supreme Court would be a joke, as it would have occurred to no one else to nominate her.”
“I wasn't making music for the sake of music but rather making music in the context of other music. At the same time, it doesn't mean I'm not going to try and do that some day.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.”
“I first wrote down all the phenomena that have emerged in contemporary society that I thought were related to this theme ["sea of oblivion"], and then sorted them out by grouping them into islands of ideas.”

Source : Source: u-in-u.com
“I think Rowdy Gaines actually said something like: Katie Ledecky doesn't swim like a man. She swims like Katie Ledecky.And that was a good comment. I swim the way I swim. And I take it as a compliment when somebody says I swim like a man, because, as you said, my stroke is kind of taken after what some of the male freestylers have done. But I'm just trying to go as fast as I can go.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.”
“When I'm feeling proud of myself, I should remember to ask myself why I think I am of any value at all. I have done nothing that a hundred thousand other people couldn't do, and most of them would probably do it better, and they probably wouldn't feel so self-important about it. I should always be ashamed of myself.”

Source : "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.
“When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isnâ€™t added but rather the white sheet is deprived of light. [] Thus I also grasped that the empty spaces are the most important aspect of a typeface.”

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