"If I was concerned about being accepted, I would have been doing Ansel Adams lookalikes, because that was easily accepted. Everything I did was never accepted...but luckily for me, my interest in the subject and my passion for the subject took me to the point that I wasn't wounded by that, and eventually, people came around to me."

-- Duane Michals

#Passion Quotes #People Quotes #Accepted Quotes

“perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly ...”

Source : Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”
“Timing is so important! If you are going to be successful in dance, you must be able to respond to rhythm and timing. It's the same in the Spirit. People who don't understand God's timing can become spiritually spastic, trying to make the right things happen at the wrong time. They don't get His rhythm - and everyone can tell they are out of step. They birth things prematurely, threatening the very lives of their God-given dreams.”
“Like countless first-year medical students, immersed in the symptoms of one disease after another, I am alert to the tingles and pangs, the throbs and quivers of my mortal body, each one of which is potentially a sign of the end.”
“You can get fired from any job at any time.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.”

Source : James Mark Baldwin (1913). “From the earliest times to John Locke.- v. 2. From John Locke to the present time”
“How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!”
“I feel very jealous towards women who can say, "I'm going to stay home and be a mom." I wish that's what fulfilled me but I like to work and I have to have something for myself.”

Source : "Expect the ‘Unexpected’ with Cobie Smulders". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. July 23, 2015.
“Anything is depressing if you dwell on it. The fact that religion could end the world? Yeah, I guess that could be considered depressing. But considering that there's also a lot to laugh at, I think it's a good balance.”

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