"The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well."

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Source : Twitter post from Sep 14, 2014

Alain de Botton

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Normal Quotes

“The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction. Text subverts the absolutely vital role of memory.”
“The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we're fearful, we freeze up - like a nine-year-old who won't draw pictures, for fear everybody will laugh. Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks. Think about how children play. They run around the playground, they trip, they fall, they get up and run some more. They believe everything will be all right. They feel capable; they let go. Good businesspeople behave in a similar way: they lose $15 million, gain $20 million, lose $30 million and earn it back. If that isn't playing, I don't know what is!”
“Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych in which their profiles confronted each other, their noses as powerful as their personalities.”
“My husband says that I'm afraid of heights, but that's not true. What I'm afraid of is falling.”
“Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.”
“If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.”
“My heart is its own grave!”
“I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.”

Source : "Odette Yustman Interview, You Again". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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