Ana Radkova > Ana's Quotes

“If you have an idea you’re excited about and you don’t bring it to life, it’s not uncommon for the idea to find its voice through another maker. This isn’t because the other artist stole your idea, but because the idea’s time has come.”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

“Дисбаланс е да си нещастен. Дисбаланс е да си щастлив. Балансът е някъде просто да си.”
― Zahary Karabashliev, 18% Сиво

“The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“Getting my shit kicked in by a clan of Jewish boarding school kids for referring to the Torah as "The Elder Scroll".”
― Mike Ma, Harassment Architecture

“SECOND WARNING
If you came here expecting coherent plot or structure, you bought or stole the wrong book. Hopefully whoever edits this can clean it up a little bit. In reality, do you even care?”
― Mike Ma, Harassment Architecture

“... аз ту скъсявам живота си със сатира, ту гледам да открадна някой свободен миг за лириката, ту заради насъщния се занимавам с редакторство. Каква всестранност! О, не завиждайте на трите ми специалности. И патицата ту плува, ту ходи, ту хвърчи, но колкото ѝ ходенето, толкова ѝ плуването и хвърчането.”
― Радой Ралин, Халосни патрони

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“No one is guaranteed happiness. It's not a human right. It's a house you have to build yourself. Your family and friends can help, but they're all busy building their own houses too. You're just bitter because you built a shit house.”
― Exurb1a, The Bridge to Lucy Dunne

“I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.”
― David Lynch, Lost Highway

“But architects are not makers of public policy, and while they can design whatever they please, they can build only what a client wants to pay for. It is not the architect’s role to solve the problem of housing the poor. It is the architect’s role to give the poor the very best housing possible when society decides it is ready to address this urgent problem. The same applies for education and health care and every other social need that can be satisfied, in part, by more and better buildings: it is the job of architects to design the best buildings, the most beautiful and civilized and useful ones, but society must be willing to address these problems before the architect can do his or her best work.”
― Paul Goldberger, Why Architecture Matters

“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”
― Charles Bukowski and Carl Weissner

“she was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.”
― Arthur C Clarke

“Living life as an artist is a practice.
You are either engaging in the practice
or you’re not.

It makes no sense to say you’re not good at it.
It’s like saying, “I’m not good at being a monk.”
You are either living as a monk or you’re not.

We tend to think of the artist’s work as the output.

The real work of the artist
is a way of being in the world.”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

“Ти сън ли си?
Или те има?
Или си утринна звезда -
далечна, но със близко име,
която свети без следа.

И ту засвети,
ту угасне
на моята любов лъча.
Аз ту те нарека прекрасна,
ту изненадан замълча.

Къде отиваш?
Де изчезна
надеждата да бъдеш с мен?
Сърцето ми, тревожна бездна -
живей щастливия си плен.

Мечта ли си?
Или те има?
Ти огън ли си?
Или дим?
Защо си тъй неповторима,
щом този свят е повторим?!”
― Павел Матев

“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“In making for ourselves a place to live, we first spread a parasol to throw a shadow on the earth, and in the pale light of the shadow we put together a house.”
― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows

“What we understand is that society must allow room for the irrational, in healthy balance with the rational.”
― Robin Robertson, The Bacchae

“It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End

“You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.”
― Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.”
― Frank Herbert

“You can say to yourself, “Yes, I see how such a thing may be.” But when you look inward and confront the raw force of your own life unshielded, you see your peril. You see that this could overwhelm you. The greatest peril to the Giver is the force that takes. The greatest peril to the Taker is the force that gives. It’s as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“I don't know what I think until I write it down.”
― Joan Didion

“What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Understanding that people are always a worse version of who they want to be is a way of loving them.”
― Spencer Madsen, You Can Make Anything Sad

“Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in ten enjoyed the place and said he'd come again, that was enough. If one out of ten was a repeat customer, then the business would survive. To put it another way, it didn't matter if nine out of ten didn't like my bar. This realization lifted a weight off my shoulders. Still, I had to make sure that the one person who did like the place really liked it. In order to make sure he did, I had to make my philosophy and stance clear-cut, and patiently maintain that stance no matter what. This is what I learned through running a business.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Leonard wore a new feeling of peace. He had always associated peace with the idea of happiness, as if it were some sort of steady state that happiness turned into when it was for real. But now he realized that peace is independent of any one feeling. The deep peace that he now felt was in a minor key. It was not blissful, but melancholy. It was a profound acceptance of things as the were, devoid of superficial preferences. The weight of effort that it took to be happy was lifted from his bones.”
― Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul