"That's the beauty of art--we strive for perfection but never achieve it. The journey is everything."

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Source : Rafe Esquith (2007). “Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56”, p.109, Penguin

Rafe Esquith

#Art Quotes #Journey Quotes #Perfection Quotes

“I've decided to aim a telescope at my neighbour's window. It's the closest I'll ever come to living with someone comfortably.”
“I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.”
“All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make me feel a little like a Hobbit who glimpses colourful strangers passing but has never left the Shire.”
“Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?”

Source : Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.122, Penguin
“We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained.”
“Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness.”
“It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval and ... a network of such centers, connected to one another by wide-band communication lines and to individual users by leased-wire services.”

Source : J. C. R. Licklider, Robert W. Taylor (1990). “In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990”
“I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil.”

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