"Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling."

-- Iain Banks

#Exercise Quotes #Skills Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos , but as a philo-sophos , someone on the way toward wisdom.”

Source : "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 90), 2001.
“Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.”
“They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.”
“On the road and traveling - that's when people are at their most creative.”

Source : "GoPro Founder Nick Woodman: 'I Am Doing This'" by Sam Moulton, www.outsideonline.com. September 18, 2013.
“I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.”
“Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.”
“You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.”
“Everyone gets scared, and everyone falls. The key is to get right back up and try again.”

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