“It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.”
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Wise Quotes — page 169 of 916
“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.”
“The words to country songs are very earthy like the blues. They're not as dressed up and the people are very honest and say, 'Look, I miss you darlin', so I went out and got drunk in this bar.' That's the way you say it. Where in Tin Pan Alley they would say, 'Oh I missed you darling, so I went to this restaurant and I sat down and had a dinner for one.' That's cleaned up now, you see? But country and blues tells it like it is.”
“I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.”
“The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!”
“The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.”
“Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.”
“Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.”
“What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.”
“My complaint with Dr Singh is that he sometimes does not highlight his achievements enough.”
“Sight is what you see with your eyes, vision is what you see with your mind.”
“As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.”
“Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history. Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism.”
“Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions.”
“A wise general makes a point of foraging of the enemy.”
“Doing a film with your friend is probably the best way to end that friendship but we worked together really well. We just have that thing. Chemistry is something that... I just think it is the last thing in Hollywood, the last magical thing they haven't computerised. There's nothing you can do about it - it's either there or it's not and it doesn't matter if you're friends or not. It was just a bonus that we were.”
“Intelligence is the shadow of objective truth. How can the shadow vie with sunshine?”
“Strong minds talk about ideas; weak minds talk about people.”
“The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism - the individual - is mightier than any collective.”
“Wealth is also defined by family, connection to our ancestry, and our best vision of the future. All of these find their inner spirit, their constancy, and their strength in the values that shape our thinking and our actions.”