"It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection."

-- Irving Babbitt

#Mind Quotes #Judgment Quotes #Closing Quotes

“Use whatever challenge comes into your life as a kind of fuel for the flame of consciousness. That is done through surrender to what is. Some people may need more of that than others. If you choose presence in your daily life you may not need the drastic challenges.”
“No matter what happens, I am conscious all the time.”
“I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.”

Source : Roseline Bacou, Odilon Redon (1987). “Odilon Redon: pastels”, George Braziller
“Know what the best thing about insomnia is? That I get to stay up all night figuring it out.”
“We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.”
“The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else.”
“I cant solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.”
“Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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