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“Our work for God is to flow from loving God; thus, we work with Him instead of for Him.”
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“Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.”
Source : Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“He sometimes felt that life was something that had already risen, and all of this, the Jackson Pollack of spring, summer, and fall, the vague refrigeration and tinfoiled sky of wintertime, was just a falling, really, originward, in a kind of correction, as if by spritual gravity, towards the wiser consciousness--or consciousnessless, maybe; could gravity trick itself like that?--of death. It was a kind of movement both very slow and very fast; there was both too much and not enough time to think.”
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“The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean something to me, so I searched my life experience and realized that acting and performing were activities that I enjoyed all aspects of.”
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“There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have another occasion. Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one. Shut the book. Read something else. Come back later. Stories can wait.”
Source : Mavis Gallant (2016). “The Collected Stories”, p.66, Everyman's Library
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“When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.”
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“Recognition in front of peers is the strongest motivator, and berating team members in private or public is the biggest demotivator. Check your use of rewards vs. penalties, with the negatives including emotional outbursts at no one in particular, a lack of feedback and veiled threats.”
Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
