"And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start."

-- Gordon Parks

#Mastery Quotes #Ready Quotes #Feels Quotes

“I was tired of doing collections, tired of doing runway shows... there was just so much wasted time and energy doing all the runway product and all the filler product. We also decided not to do wholesale, which gives me a lot of freedom; I can basically do what I want and I don't need to fit into any department in a store.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“My son is a blessing in every way.”
“It isn't success after all, is it, if it isn't an expression of your deepest energies?”
“If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.”
“Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.”
“Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.”
“I've told Michael Jackson jokes. If you got really technical, you could say those are jokes about child molestation. You could, if you got technical. A lot of this is just selective outrage because honestly, the audience are the ones that tell us that something shouldn't be spoken. The audience lets us know. And I've never, in my almost 30 years of being a comedian, seen a comedian continue to tell a joke that the audience doesn't respond to. I've never seen it.”
“Philosophy is the education of grown-ups.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com

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