"There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your energy into one thing; its the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture."

-- Renzo Piano

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“You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.”
“If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work, then I was never an artist.”

Source : Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”
“Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.”
“When someone is HIV-positive and his partner says, I want to have sexual relations with you, he doesn't have to do that. But when he does, he has to use a condom.”

Source : "Cardinal backs use of condoms" by John Hooper, Andrew Osborn, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2004.
“Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready.”
“The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.”

Source : May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.61, Open Road Media
“Secret fates Guide our states Both in mirth and mourning.”

Source : Thomas Campion (1909). “Campion's Work”
“The steps arenâ€™t enough. Feel the music.”

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