"The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me."

-- Martin Yan

#Excited Quotes #Praise Quotes #Applause Quotes

“Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.”
“The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.”
“Yet the women's misery is socually invisible. Despite our education and accomplishments, we are expected to keep our mouths shut and accept our infertility treatments as consolation prize. Our jobs are supposed to be our highest priority. We are expected to overlook the connection between our disappointment, the impossible ideology of equality, and the contraception that makes that ideology appear to be possible.”
“Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.”

Source : Maurice Druon (1964). “The memoirs of Zeus”
“In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.”
“Mark Frankel was just a very tender, thoughtful person, and that was really nice. At that point in life, I hadn't met a lot of people my senior who were that tender, and still doing well and making a real go of it. That was a treat, for sure.”
“A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost.”
“Opportunity does not need to be exactly equal. It needs only to exist. For the talented and motivated, that will be enough...The vital thing is not to maximize everyone's performance, but to ensure maximal performance from the most talented, the ones who can make a difference.”

Source : William A. Henry, III (2015). “In Defense of Elitism”, p.29, Anchor

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