"Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that."

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Jill Dando

#Long Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“Great artists are products of their own time: they do not spring forth fully equipped from the head of Jove, but are formed by the circumstances acting upon them since birth. These circumstances include the ambiance created by the other, lesser artists of their own time, who have all done their part in creating the pressure that forces up an exceptional talent. Unjustly, but unavoidably, the very closeness of a great artist to his colleagues and contemporaries leads to their eclipse.”
“When they took TV to Fiji they found that after 3 years nearly 12 girls out of 100 were over the toilet bowls with bulimia because they felt inferior.”
“When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.”
“I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature,”

Source : John Berryman (2014). “77 Dream Songs: Poems”, p.16, Macmillan
“The success of everything depends on intuition, the capacity of seeing things in a way which afterwards proves to be true, even though it cannot be established at the moment, and of grasping the essential fact, discarding the unessential, even though one can give no account of the principles by which this is done.”

Source : Joseph A. Schumpeter (2011). “The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle”, p.85, Transaction Publishers
“It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.”
“I've always been a gamer. I play a version of Dungeons & Dragons.”
“Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.”

Source : Os Guinness (2003). “The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc

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