"Emotion combined with an artist's discipline is the rarest thing in the world."

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Source : Ursula Nordstrom, Leonard S. Marcus (1998). “Dear genius: the letters of Ursula Nordstrom”, Harpercollins

Ursula Nordstrom

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“Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.”
“To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.”
“The Supreme Court of Canada has given prisoners the "right" to vote. Is it not time that non-jailed citizens were given reciprocity with a "right" that prisoners have; namely the freedom to bypass the public system when it fails to provide reasonable access?”
“I try to stay calm and I try to enjoy myself as I perform these actions so I perform them with minimal stress on my body.”
“It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.”

Source : "Majestic Presence". www.thehindu.com. June 20, 2003.
“In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.”
“The poverty line understates the true amount of poverty because it measures it as three times the breadbasket that a family needs, but it doesn't consider all the other things that are inflating far, far faster than food prices.”
“Here I am: My brain is open.”

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