"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."

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Source : "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

B. B. King

#Love Quotes #Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes

“I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist”
“They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked through intelligently (though they have tried to stay equable). I've noticed this is often the time when children begin calling their parents by their first names, becoming little ironists after their parents' faults. What could be lonelier for a parent than to be criticized by his child on a first-name basis?”
“We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.”
“I like pushing the envelope. I like pushing myself and the audience, whether it's a TV show or live. I like to throw people over the edge of the cliff and scare the wits out of them, but then pull them back and make them safe.”
“Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen by a one-eyed, motionless person who is clearly detached from what he sees. It makes a God of the spectator, who becomes the person on whom the whole world converges, the Unmoved Onlooker.”

Source : Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.25, Vintage
“Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . And here I return to my point. From my point of view, after the catastrophe which we feel and think is universal, a catastrophe resulting from an excess of useless dynamism of useless progress, of useless realism, of useless technology, after this an unattainable democracy is to be reached through the conception and realization of a new romanticism.”

Source : "Heroic Reason" by Juan Ramon Jimenez (p. 231), 1957.
“Pretty please. With sugar.”
“A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.”

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