"What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world."

-- Norman Cousins

#Skills Quotes #Perspective Quotes #People Quotes

“As for my personal life, I'd love to start a family of my own. I think I'd make a great dad, and I think shortly I would make a great husband.”
“The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.”
“I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.”
“For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.”
“Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside the gates of the Paradise of Perfection, but who nevertheless will give the very best there is in them because the work they do means more to them than anything else in this world.”

Source : Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Grace Castagnetta (1937). “The Arts”, New York : Simon and Schuster
“I've seen the consequences of what can happen when you're unprepared for a fight, or not as prepared as your opponent.I can't let anything like that happen to me, I've got too many goals, too much ambition in the sport. We're looking to fight for a world title this year.”
“Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.”
“You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.”

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