"I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection."

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Source : Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

Asger Jorn

#Responsibility Quotes #Reflection Quotes

“Richard Avedon taught me that if you go into a photo session and come out with what you had hoped for, itâ€™s a failure. You need to be surprised if you want it to be magical.”
“I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.”
“At 15, 16, you think you're going to be captain of England. But I realised it wasn't going to happen for me on a windy November night in Darlington, coming to my peak at the age of 23 but still playing for Mansfield Town.”
“Having emotional independence means we are no longer tied to the need for constant approval and are, therefore, not coerced into doing more than we feel comfortable doing by our need to please others.”

Source : Sue Patton Thoele (2016). “The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem”, p.32, Conari Press
“I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.”
“With the withering of the rose, and with each fallen petal, Allah is reminding us that everything here is passing away. He is reminding us that nothing in this world will remain, except for Allah.”
“The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.”
“A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the wordsâ€”or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbolsâ€”spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word.”

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