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"True artists, whatever smiling faces they may show you, are obsessive, driven people – whether driven by some mania or driven by some high, noble vision need not concern us here." -John Gardener, The Art of Fiction


"As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." - James Lane Allen

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley

"Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb, education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts, persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." - Calvin Coolidge

"Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect, and as a consequence, the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility." - Arthur Schopenauer

"First of all, you are not going anywhere. When you realize that you are not going anywhere and you have already arrived, then you realize that you don't have to strive for anything else." - Anonymous

"Competition is natural to the ignorant; and cooperation is natural to the wise." - Manly P. Hall

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

"Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that!" - Taisen Deshimaru

"The danger of our culture. We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture." - Nietzsche

"After work, businessmen talk about art, and artists talk about money." - Anonymous

"All [people] dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous [people], for they may act on their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." - T.E. Lawrence (Seven Pillars of Wisdom)

"just because you may be from a certain racial background, doesn't always mean that your personality traits will be representative of that racial background. " - mubali