"If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble."

-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Needs Quotes #Trouble Quotes #Certain Quotes

“When we are forced to do multiple things at once, not only do we perform worse on all of them but our memory decreases and our general well-being suffers a palpable hit.”

Source : Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.9, Canongate Books
“Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as a determination to live decently.”
“But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.”

Source : Barry Webster (2005). “The Sound of All Flesh”, p.14, The Porcupine's Quill
“Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great.”
“The more we increase the active participation and partnership with young people, the better we serve them. ... And the more comprehensively we work with them as service partners, the more we increase our public value to the entire community.”
“These days, I find it harder to listen to really trebly lo-fi recordings. At the same time, without the old limitations, these new technologies require self control. So much of the software seems to be about correcting imperfections - quantizing, Auto-tune - and, to me, those corrections can really drain the life out of a performance.”
“Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.”

Source : "All in the Family". Time Magazine, June 26, 2006.
“Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you're kind of missing the point. Taking shortcuts doesn't mean shortcutting the end result.”

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