"A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave."

-- Henri Matisse

#Past Quotes #Digging Quotes #Generations Quotes

“The good, the bad, that's just life. Let it go. There's no need to fret about the past. The question is: who are you going to share it with tomorrow?”
“Acting is fun. I enjoy it, but there is just not many opportunities to do it on a serious level. It is kind of either bad community musicals, or if you are lucky enough to be cast in something serious. I feel like you really have to be going after it, and for me I am a little bit distracted.”
“I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping a coin. But don't go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails?”
“Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be true to yourself and your musical vision. People have known me well for a long time, so if I was chasing a trend and doing something that wasn't authentic to who I am, they would know it in just a few seconds.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I want to be happy because it is beneficial for me but also because I want to be a messenger of happiness to my friends and family.”
“The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers..”

Source : Across the Board The Three Rs of Economic Forecasting-Irrational, Irrelevant and Irreverent June 1977
“I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments of every case. First came the one that I planned-as I thought, logical, coherent, complete. Second was the one actually presented-interrupted, incoherent, disjointed, disappointing. The third was the utterly devastating argument that I thought of after going to bed that night.”

Source : Lecture before State Bar of California, San Francisco, Cal., 23 Aug. 1951
“The black and white lemur, the one that relaxes on that branch, they actually have day care, like kindergartens; where all the mothers come together and they put all the babies into this one nest and they let dad watch it while they go out and have food and have a good time and then they come back in a few hours. We've never seen that in other primates.”

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