"Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from."

-- Chuck Close

#Reality Quotes #Want Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself.”
“To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion, a way station on the way to the higher "reality" of long, warm, pleasant summers. But summer, it turned out, was no more real than the snow that melted in wintertime.”
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”

Source : "I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.
“What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go of one's own interest on behalf of others, being ready if necessary to sacrifice one's own interests for them, even on behalf of an enemy.”
“I was writing songs because I needed them, songs about trusting God in difficult circumstances.”
“The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.”
“Dressage is when you put a dress on your horse. It's like putting on drag, but for horses.”
“So often we measure by what is false. We should measure by what is barely legible barely in our dailiness. It is the invisible that doesn't lie the invisible through which we see ourselves finally on a back street in the world.”

Source : Peter Gizzi (2007). “The Outernationale”, p.90, Wesleyan University Press

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