"I don't concentrate on things I can't do. I do what I can do."

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Betty Cuthbert

“Hyperrealism is more about objectifying... how an object can be portrayed when it is seen through a camera's lens... all my paintings are about an object being viewed through human eyes.”
“Theories have nothing to do with life ...”
“Every great move forward in your life begins with a leap of faith, a step into the unknown.”
“Donâ€™t let the noise of othersâ€™ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”
“We believe each other into being.”

Source : "Suicide, and Hope for Our Future Selves". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. December 9, 2015.
“The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable arguments ... and the appeal to the emotions ... and especially the freedom to cease when sated. The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.”

Source : Lawrence S. Kubie (1966). “Newurotic Distortion of the Creative Process”
“It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.”
“Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.”

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