"Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled."
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"I often had to pass over photographs because in a mass of animals invariably one would be wandering in the wrong direction, thereby disrupting the pattern I was trying to achieve. Today the ability to digitally alter this disruption is at hand."
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"Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are really powerful, we are going to be considered ruthless or pushy or strident - all of those epithets that strike right at our femininity. We are still working at trying to overcome the fear that power and womanliness are mutually exclusive."
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"The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world."
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"It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done."
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"We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress."
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"It's in the silence that your problems just dissolve. Try it. It really works."
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"I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful."
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"I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can't sell it as caviar."
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"Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came."
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"Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are."
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"Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy."
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"The greatest failure in life is to stop trying."
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"The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past."
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"If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure."
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"We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change."
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"As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things."
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"I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the polar bears that they would care so much that they would stand up and try to make a change."
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"Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride."
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"Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change"
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