One of the things I learned is that I had to bend or else break. And I also learned that it is possible to bend and break at the same time.
Raymond Carver, Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories
Raymond Carver, Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
Peter Drucker
Peter Drucker
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky
Wayne Gretzky
When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.
Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly
It may be when we no longer know what to do,
we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go,
we have begun our real journey. Wendell Berry
we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go,
we have begun our real journey.
Wendell Berry
It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before… to test your limits… to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
Anais Nin
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
John Berger, 1987
John Berger, 1987
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
Justine (Alexandria Quartet)
by Lawrence Durrell
Justine (Alexandria Quartet) by Lawrence Durrell
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