"Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?"

-- John D. Rockefeller

#Art Quotes #Mind Quotes #Exclusion Quotes

“There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.”

Source : Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Child Who Never Grew: A Memoir”, p.4, Open Road Media
“I don't think I'd really be alive without it, in all honesty.”

Source : "The Interview: The Darling Buds". Hunger Interview, www.hungertv.com. September 9, 2014.
“One of the greatest assets you have is your imagination.”
“The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.”
“Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.”
“Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.”
“Shakespeare wrote, Einstein thought, Ataturk built.”
“Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him.”

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