“think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well: larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast of the plushy ocean, he goes. Admire his wings!”
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Inspired Quotes — page 70 of 313
“We must believe in a sense of life renewed by the theater, a sense of life in which man fearlessly makes himself master of what does not yet exist, and brings it into being. And everything that has not been born can still be brought to life if we are not satisfied to remain mere recording organisms.”
“Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.”
“The success of a play, especially one's first success, is somewhat like pushing against a door which is suddenly opened that was always securely shut until then. For myself, the experience was invigorating. It suddenly seemed that the audience was a mass of blood relations, and I sensed a warmth in the world that had not been there before. It made it possible to dream of daring more and risking more.”
“Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.”
“It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.”
“Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn’t produce anything.”
“Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.”
“Let's say there was no terrorism whatsoever and we were all very nice to one another and we were all kind, we still would be faced with an extremely cruel and hostile universe and existence and so I'm a great pessimist and I feel that it's impossible really to be happy, and that the best you can hope for is to be distracted.”
“Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.”
“I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.”
“Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you.”
“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”
“When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.”
“Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.”
“Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.”
“People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.”
“The only way to create change in anyone`s psychology or belief system is to show them the consequences of their actions - or inaction.”
“After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.”
“It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.”