"You do your best work when you're not conscious of yourself."

-- Peter Matthiessen

#Consciousness Quotes #Self Conscious Quotes #Best Work Quotes

“Time travel is a terrifying weapon, far more powerful than anything ever before conceived,' he said grimly.'Mankind just isn't ready for that kind of knowledge. We're like children casually playing with an atom bomb.”
“Donaire is a very good champion. We both have speed and power. The difference is intelligence. I was born to fight. The bigger the fight the better. If Donaire isn't right, he's going to get knocked out. Maybe five rounds, maybe less. Not sure yet. But you know what? Donaire stepped up and took this fight. He didn't have to. For that, I respect him for getting in the ring with me.”
“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.”
“I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and repeated in every part of its interior so that wherever you are, inside or outside, the building sings with the same message.”

Source : Eero Saarinen, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Donald Albrecht (2006). “Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future”, p.353, Yale University Press
“In 2000, I fell in love. I had never felt anything like that before in my life. It kind of took me over.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It seems to me that if you can't make a good solid case for your faith, you don't have a religion, you just have a habit.”
“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
“I'm proud to be a Democrat.”

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