Quotes
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Quotes
“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.”
― Miles Davis
― Miles Davis
Poetic Outlaws • Tweet
“Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.” -Ken Wilber
Inspiration is perishable and life goes by fast. Inaction is a particularly insidious type of risk. (via Sam Altman)
“You must understand the whole of life, not just one part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, why you must sing, dance and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”
—Krishnamurti
—Krishnamurti
Steve Schlafman • Tweet
God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know that one is me.
https://adultchildren.org/literature/aca-serenity-prayer/
“Hope is tough. It’s tougher to be uncertain than certain. It’s tougher to take chances than to be safe. And so hope is often seen as weakness, because it’s vulnerable, but it takes strength to enter into that vulnerability of being open to the possibilities.”
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
— Robert Hughes, 1996
— Robert Hughes, 1996
Dylan O'Sullivan • Tweet
"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others."
~ Picasso
~ Picasso