"Davy once asked me if I thought it was better to be a has-been than a never was, but maybe it doesn't make much of a difference. In the end, people are just people, and the only things that matter are whether they are good or bad, loving or unloving, loved or unloved."

-- Todd Strasser

#Differences Quotes #People Quotes #Matter Quotes

“You can always dream, and your dreams can come true. But you have to make them come true”
“Iâ€™m not much of a fly tier. I can do itâ€”my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying'â€”and I tie some cool flies that I canâ€™t buy in a fly shop, but other than that, I would no more sit down and tie a dozen hopper patterns than I would do something absolutely insane, like build a rod.”
“Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.”
“Why do people take notice of first snowfalls but not the last days of snow? Remember the last too.”
“Thats the thing about better. You cant own it. You can only pursue it. Stalk it. But once youve tasted it, better is never truly beyond your reach.”
“In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane... It refers to the attainment of both material well-being and the elevation of the human spirit, [but] since what produces man's well-being and refinement is knowledge and virtue, civilization ultimately means the progress of man's knowledge and virtue.”

Source : "An encouragement of learning". Book by Fukuzawa Yukichi and Obata Tokujirō, 1872-1876.
“Peter Shilton conceded five, you don't get many of those to the dozen”
“I'm criticizing the way they are perceived. I was going through a book of Marina Abramovic and Ulay's 1970s performance work the other day. These people did two, even three Documentas or Venice Biennales over the course of a decade without any fuss. They would just treat it as any of their other engagements, with the same level of dignity and commitment they'd reserve for a one-day event in a small gallery on the Austrian mountains.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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