"A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it!"

-- Christopher Morley

#Book Quotes #Doctors Quotes #People Quotes

“You don't have to prove yourself to me. You don't even have to prove yourself to you.”
“I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.”
“I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.”
“When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.”

Source : Alexander Calder, A. S. C. Rower, Ugo Mulas, Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, Palazzo delle esposizioni (Rome, Italy) (2009). “Calder: Sculptor of Air”, 24 Ore Cultura
“Listen for the instruction, instead of begging for the direction.”
“Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery.”

Source : Jeffrey Sachs (2011). “The Price of Civilization: Economics and Ethics After the Fall”, p.3, Random House
“Action and contemplation are...”
“I love being home, reading the paper in the morning and having a cup of coffee, doing laundry, going grocery shopping and running daily errands. For me, it's important to have that balance in my life.”

Source : Source: www.roomthirteen.com

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