I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
Orson Welles
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One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless.
Donald Barthelme
No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality.
Burnett Hillman Streeter
Someone from Manolo Blahnik went into my shop and said: 'These shoes are not vegetarian.' That's the highest compliment, because you just can't tell that they are, and they are. My mum taught me to have a soul.
Stella McCartney
A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.
Lester Thurow
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
No better love than love with no objective, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up tricks and cleverness, that would be the cleverest trick!
If you are hurt, whether in mind or body, don't nurse your bruises. Get up, and light-heartedly, courageously, good-temperedly, get ready for the next encounter.
Emily Post
We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.
Marcy Kaptur
Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.
Menander
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash
It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
Once the subconscious mind accepts an idea, it begins to execute it.
Joseph Murphy
One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.
Giorgio Morandi
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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
To survive, our minds must taste redwood, and agate, octopi, bat, and in the bat's mouth, insect. It's hard to think like a planet, but we've got to try.
James Bertolino
