"Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever."

-- Chuck Close

#Inspiration Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.”

Source : William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns
“Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.”
“Everything we'll accomplish, we'll do it together or not at all.”
“lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.”
“Are not our desires inseparably intertwined with the continuation of life? Even the idea of eliminating desire is fruitless. The desire to eliminate all desire is still itself a desire. How can we find release and peace by replacing one desire with another? Surely we shall find peace not by eliminating desire, but by finding its fulfillment and satisfaction in the One who created it.”
“Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.”
“Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions ofthe multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the promotion of the practical aims of the still larger multitude, who do not profess to think much, but are quite certain they want a great deal.”
“The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the wide-open eye which leads us to see truth more vividly, to apprehend more broadly, to concern ourselves more deeply, to be, all our life long, sensitive and awake to the powers and responsibilities given to us as human beings.”

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